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The Hunger Angel
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3.5
“Soy muy fan de libros de ficción histórica, sin embargo, es la primera vez que leo un libro ambientado en los campos de trabajo forzado "reconstrucción" de la Unión Soviética. Es algo muy importante que recordar y tener presente, porque todos hemos visto, leído o escuchado sucesos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero son pocas las veces en las que se profundiza en los años posteriores al fin de la guerra (a partir de 1945) con los alemanes étnicos en Rumania que fueron deportados.
La historia es muy densa y muy descriptiva. No la considero una lectura fuerte y tampoco sencilla. Se me volvió difícil encontrarle el hilo a la historia hasta que recordé que era un poema en prosa.”
“this is a very well written book, extremely vivid and raw. for me though, it was very heavy and challenging, emotionally and mentally. it has a lot of lengthy descriptions that i found tough to get through and didn’t really absorb a lot of the technical information. i do think it is so important to read about the history of human sufferings, and the concept of the book and portrayal of starvation as a living thing felt very cleverly written. i would not recommend if you’re looking for an easy quick read despite the short length of this novel but rather if you can take your time with it and let every word sit and would like a demanding yet appropriately intense experience inside the mind of a prisoner of a labor camp. there are some very cruel and graphic scenes, some regarding animals.”
“A book that feels like a surreal jigsaw puzzle, jumbled and disorienting yet capturing the forced labor camps that the Soviet Union forced all Romanians aged 17-45 to work in following WW2. Objects fade into and out of view, but one things remains constantly in sight - hunger. Hunger for a world where a gay teen in 1944 could find love. Hunger for escape from the slag pits. Hunger for home. But, above all, a hunger for food. A hunger so inescapable it becomes like an object that lives in each prisoner’s brain, distorting everything else in their experiences in labor camps.
In the end, Leo is haunted by his memories of the labor camp for the rest of his life, in the distance to his family, his future, and himself. A distance that cannot be measured but is equal to the distance between meals in a forced labor camp. I feel like I missed at least half of the things being said in this book. It’s incredibly imaginative, evocative, and layered. It only lets you view the experiences in the labor camps at oblique angles and fleeting glimpses. So at the end you are left with scattered pieces that you must slowly reconstruct. Like a puzzle.
Some of the most gorgeous, heart-breaking prose and some that was so oblique and poetic I’m not sure if I’ll ever understand.”
About Herta Müller
is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the European Literature Prize. She is the author of, among other books,
and
. Born in Romania in 1953, Müller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's secret police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin.
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