Todo lo que tengo lo llevo conmigo (The Hunger Angel)

2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Müller presents a superb new novel that delves into the horrors endured by Romanian Germans during Stalin’s regime. Her book stems from interviews with the poet Oskar Pastior (imprisoned from 1945 to 1949) and other Gulag survivors. “Shocked that, in the depths of winter, I was to be taken who-knows-where by the Russians, everyone wanted to give me something that would be useful, maybe, even if it didn't help. Because nothing on earth could help. It was irrevocable: I was on the Russians' list, so everyone gave me something [...]”