Bibliograph

The fox was ever the hunter, a novel, Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm

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The fox was ever the hunter, a novel, Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The fox was ever the hunter

Oclc number

205501

Responsibility statement

Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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 returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police--the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator

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