A review by pearloz
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller

3.0

Didn't really come together for me like previous books of hers I've read, although the voice and structure are consistent: snapshots of a crumbled and authoritarian yet industrious Romania, it's cold, hard people scrambling for existence, trying to strike a balance between duty and personal freedom, a barely-there plot. It's challenging in that there is no romance and little kindness, it just feels like a narrative of disillusioned people surviving. I don't know that she hadn't written this book already.