{"product_id":"9780805096026","title":"The Fox Was Ever the Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRomania-the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on all of the group.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it's the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police-the fox was ever the hunter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it's hard to tell victim from perpetrator. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Fox Was Always a Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, Herta Müller once again uses language that displays the \"concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose\"-as the Swedish Academy noted upon awarding her the Nobel Prize-to create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109433557232,"sku":"9780805096026","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780805096026_p0.jpg?v=1769907282","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780805096026","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}