Herta Müller

An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize, hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism

Romania, the last months of the Ceaușescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher, Paul is a musician, and Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole group.

One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off.