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sethdmichaels 's review for:
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
by Herta Müller
This is an odd one - brief but so unusual in its language that it takes some fairly deep reading to get into; there are weird repeated motifs, mixed metaphors, anthropomorphic description and cultural references that don't quite translate. A story about living in Communist Romania and the surreal, paranoid tone of existence under dictatorship; it's very lyrical and discursive, one of those novels that's obviously written by a poet. I admired it more than I enjoyed it.