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Nadirs (autobiography)

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Nadirs
1982 Kriterion (Bucharest) edition[1]
AuthorHerta Müller
Original titleNiederungen
TranslatorSieglinde Lug
LanguageGerman
GenreShort story, autobiography
PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press (US)
Publication date
1982
Publication placeRomania
Published in English
1999
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages118 p. (paperback edition)
ISBN978-0-8032-8254-4 (paperback edition)

Nadirs (German: Niederungen) is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller. The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside.[2]

The book was first released in Romania in 1982, where it received a prize awarded by the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth. A supposedly uncensored version, missing four chapters of the Romanian version, was smuggled to Germany and released in 1984.[3]

Stories

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  • The Funeral Sermon
  • The Swabian Bath
  • My Family
  • Nadirs
  • Rotten Pears
  • Oppressive Tango
  • The Window
  • The Man with the Matchbox
  • Village Chronicle
  • About German Mustaches and Hair Parts
  • The Intervillage Bus
  • Mother, Father, and the Little One
  • The Street Sweepers
  • Black Park
  • Workday

References

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  1. ^ "Highs and Lowlands: desperately seeking Romanian publications by Herta Müller". 8 July 2011.
  2. ^ Fischer, Tibor (24 October 2009). "The Passport and Nadirs by Herta Müller". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  3. ^ Karolides, Nicholas J. (2005). 120 banned books : censorship histories of world literature. Bald, Margaret., Sova, Dawn B., Karolides, Nicholas J. New York: Checkmark Books/Facts On File. p. 24. ISBN 0-8160-6504-7. OCLC 56324787.