by Herta Müller · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498413731
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«La bestia del corazón» is the novel by Herta Müller, published by Siruela in paperback (196 pages, in Spanish).
Four friends try to preserve their identity under Ceaușescu's dictatorship. The death of Lola, a student from southern Romania who was trying to escape poverty, strengthens the group's resistance. The novel portrays corruption, social assimilation, transgression, and the dilemma of staying silent or speaking out in a society that is destroying itself.
Translated by Bettina Blanch Tyroller; the original title is Herztier (1994). Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Nuevos Tiempos collection, number 166.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction and political fiction set in Eastern Europe.
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
