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

"A riveting, haunting, incisive, and melancholy document that provides the ultimate example of a writer bearing witness and holding evil to account."—The Wall Street Journal

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 o...