Download The Fox Was Ever the Hunter: A Novel AudioBook Free
An early masterpiece from the success of the Nobel Prize, hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism. Romania, the previous a few months of the Ceaușescu plan. Adina is a schoolteacher, Paul is a musician, and Clara works in a wire stock. Pavel is Clara's fan, but one of them works for the secret police which is reporting overall group. One day Adina results home to learn that her fox hair rug has had its tail take off. On another occasion it is the hind leg. Then it's a foreleg. The mutilated hair is a sign that she actually is being tracked by the secret law enforcement - the fox was ever before the hunter. Images of photographic detail combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep body and mind intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to see victim from perpetrator. In The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, Herta Müller once again uses language that presents the "concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" - as the Swedish Academy observed upon awarding her the Nobel Prize - to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the problem of the heart under totalitarianism.
