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In the icy month of January 1945, seventeen‑year‑old Leo Auberg is deported to a Soviet labor camp. Over five years he endures grueling work in a coke plant—shoveling coal, carrying bricks, mixing mortar—while battling constant hunger. Herta Müller’s 2009 novel, inspired by the true story of poet Oskar Pastior, portrays the physical and moral absurdities of the Gulag with poetic intensity and stark precision.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Herta Müller
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