Breathing Swing

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This breakthrough work by Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, uses the conciseness of poetry and the directness of prose. Through the silent act of writing, she gives dignity to the weak. Every breath when struggling to survive is so difficult, like a swing swinging back and forth. Editor's recommendation: Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, was born in a German-speaking village in Romania. She uses the conciseness of poetry and the directness of prose to describe the plight of the displaced. Through the silent act of writing, she gives dignity to the weak.
◎ "Breathing Swing" was published in 2009 and was praised as "a magnificent, breathtaking and humbling novel." It is a breakthrough work of the author at the peak of his creative career.
A record and testimony of victims and survivors. Towards the end of World War II, seventeen-year-old Leopard Oberk was drafted into a labor camp. He faced freezing cold, hunger, humiliation, fear, and the agonizing breathlessness of a swinging trance.
Synopsis: In 1945, near the end of World War II, a group of German-speaking Romanian men were drafted into a Russian labor camp. The novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Leopard Oberk, whose experiences were etched in his bones by hunger and fear, and whose every breath, like a swing on a rope, brought dizziness and agony.
🔷Media Recommendation: A rare and powerful work, a poem of intense and lasting intensity... Miller distills the concrete, infuses it with powerful language, and sears these details into the reader's heart.
——Der Spiegel
🔷Celebrity Recommendation: What can't be expressed in words can still be written down. Writing is a silent act, a labor of mind and hand. —Herta Müller Herta Müller is a writer who should not be overlooked. Like a ruler, she measures the times, language, and fiction, as well as her readers and herself.
——Qiu Huadong

2023-02-01

贵州人民出版社

Houlang, Houlang Literature

360

9787221172341