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Serpent's Tail is to reissue Herta Müller's first book in English translation, The Passport, while fellow indie Granta will be reissuing her novel The Land of Green Plums.
The Romanian-born German author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this morning (8th October).
The Passport was first published by Serpent's Tail publisher Pete Ayrton in 1989, and will be reissued on 19th October as a £7.99 paperback. The Passport is set in a German village in Romania "caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceauşescu’s dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West".
"Herta Müller is a writer who helps us understand what it is to be human in the 20th and 21st centuries." said Ayrton. "Though rooted in the German ethnic minority of Romania, her writing is universal . . . Once again the Nobel Prize committee has done its job—to bring to the attention of a wider public an essential writer whose lyrical prose captures the oppression of totalitarian regimes."
Granta is also set to reissue The Land of Green Plums as a £7.99 b-format paperback in November. Müller's third novel, it is also set in Ceauşescu’s Romania, and follows a group of students attempting to make their way in the city.