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Nadirs (autobiography)

Nadirs () 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.

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.

Stories

  • 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