The Fox Was Ever The Hunter: A Novel

"An air of Soviet-era menace engulfs The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, the remarkable new novel by Herta Müller, who was described by the Swedish Academy upon her 2009 Nobel Prize win as a writer who “depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” The Fox draws on what Müller suffered while clenched in the jaws of one of history’s most notorious dictatorships, but she infuses characters and events with surreal elements and heightened levels of metaphor. Here, dreams become extensions of life — or life itself is a dream; they are cut from the same fabric, consistently lurid and terrifying."