WThe Appointment is a novel by German author Herta Müller. The novel was originally published in German in 1997 and later in English by Metropolitan Books and Picador, a Macmillan imprint, in 2001. The novel was one of several for which Müller was known when she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. The Appointment portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police. She is accused of sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy asking that the recipient marry her to help her get out of the country.
WBarfüßiger Februar is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 1987. The book consists of a series of short stories, each indicting conditions present in German speaking part of Romania, such as the wretched poverty seen in the Romanian countryside. An article in Die Zeit by Marina Münkler calls it a "Dokument der Zerrissenheit".
WDrückender Tango is a collection of short stories by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was Müller's second book, published in 1984 in Bucharest. After its publication, Müller was no longer allowed to publish her work in Romania and she moved to Germany. Reviews in Germany had been positive for Drückender Tango, by contrast with the criticism it received in the Romanian press. Today, it has been described as one of Muller's best-known books.
WDer fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne is a book by German Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 1999. The book has received praise for its persuasiveness and its ability to explain why her Romanian past influences her writing style.
WDer Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger is a novelization of the script for the film Der Fuchs der Jäger, which was produced alongside of Harry Merkel. Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger was first published in 1992 and is read as if it were a film, because Herta Müller wholly retains its cinematic character in the piece. Happel called the book "emotionless" and "objective".
WThe Hunger Angel is a 304-page prose poem by Herta Müller. The English translation is by Philip Boehm (2012).
WIm Haarknoten wohnt eine Dame is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 2000. Like many of Müller's books it focuses on Romanian-Germans and their past involvement with Nazism.
WImmer derselbe Schnee und immer derselbe Onkel is a book of essays by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. The book was first published in Germany on March 7, 2011 through Carl Hanser Verlag.
WThe Land of Green Plums is a novel by Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag. Perhaps Müller's best-known work, the story portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state in Communist Romania, ending with their emigration to Germany. The narrator is an unidentified young woman belonging to the ethnic German minority. Müller said the novel was written "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceauşescu regime".
WNadirs 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 and the violent, oppressive atmosphere of Romania in the mid-20th century.
WThe Passport is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1986. The German title refers to a saying in Romania. The novel, one of several for which the author was known when winning the Nobel in 2009, tells the story of a village miller in a German-speaking village in the Banat in Romania, who applies for permission to emigrate to West Germany. The novel was published in English by Serpent's Tail in 1989, the first of Müller's novels to be offered in direct translation.
WDer Teufel sitzt im Spiegel is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 1991 after Müller's emigration to Germany and is cited in 2010's History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe, along with Traveling on One Leg and The Land of Green Plums, as drawing attention to her work in the West. Titled for a cautionary proverb which Müller's grandmother used to say to her—a warning against a variety of evils including vanity, sexual self-awareness and self-reflection in general, each of which could precede a fall, the book is a collection of essays about writing and literature built around the theme.
WTraveling on One Leg is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, published in German in 1989 by Rotbuch Verlag. An English translation was made available in 1998.
WVater telefoniert mit den Fliegen is a collection of collage poems by Nobel Prize-winning writer Herta Müller first published in 2012. The 191 collages are divided between five sections. As with most of Müller's work, one of the collection's underlying themes is political, stemming from her experience living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Communist Romania.
WDer Wächter nimmt seinen Kamm is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller. It was first published in 1993.
WEine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett is a collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Müller, first published in 1992. The essays were previously published as columns in the monthly Swiss publication Du between 1990 and 1992.