The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania by Müller, Herta
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania by Müller, Herta

The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania

A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu's...
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Author: Herta Müller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania by Müller, Herta

The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania

$35.94
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania by Müller, Herta

The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania

$35.94
Author: Herta Müller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu's Romania.

From her childhood in Romania, in a village "as small as a thimble on the edge of the world," through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Müller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize laureate reflects on cultural history, memory, and trauma, and on what it was to live and write under Ceausescu's regime. She revisits the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism.

The Village on the Edge of the World is a book that chronicles the minutiae of life under both fascism and the Soviet Union, while charting the existential questions posed by these regimes of the twentieth century--and how they remain with us in the twenty-first. This is a powerful and evocative reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain.

Author: Herta Müller
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9798897100828


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2026
Library Journal 04/01/2026 pg. 76
Foreword 04/27/2026

About the Author
Herta Müller was born on August 17, 1953 in Banat, Romania. In 1987, she emigrated to Germany and has lived in Berlin ever since. She is the author of The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, The Hunger Angel, and The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, among other works. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.

Kate McNaughton is a documentary filmmaker, author, and translator, working from the French, German, and Italian. Her debut novel, How I Lose You, was published in 2018.
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