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In Romania during the last months of the Ceausescu regime, young schoolteacher Adina returns home to discover that her fox rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it is the hindleg. Next, a foreleg. This mutilated fur is a message that she is being tracked by the secret police: the fox was ever the hunter . . .
An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, Herta Muller's The Fox Was Ever the Hunter uses language that displays both the concentration of poetry and the frankness of proseto create a hauntingly cinematic portrayal of the corruption of the soul under totalitarianism.
"Vividly poetic, Muller has exercised her voice with a fury that vibrates off the page." -- The Boston Globe