The Hunger Angel: A Novel

A masterful novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize. It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, battling the relentless calculus of hunger that governed the labor colony. Nobel laureate Herta Müller conjures the distorted world of the labor camp in all its physical and moral absurdity. Hunger becomes an insatiable angel who haunts the camp, but also a bare-knuckled sparring partner, delivering blows that keep Leo feeling the rawest connection to life.