The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

The Nobel Laureate's "atmospheric, lyrical" novel of surviving Communist Romania: "An essential work of post–Iron Curtain literature" (Kirkus, starred review).

Romania, the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group.

One day Adina discovers that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's ...