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 Romania.

“Riveting and haunting. Rarely has a writer exhibited such an innate strength of character.”—The Wall Street Journal

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. He...