The Hunger Angel, Herta MüllerA masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee) It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen year old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, mixing mortar,

The bad news is that you can’t really escape them

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only to discover that her lover's enigmatic demeanour hides a devastating past

Kikuji Kawanda

is heartbreaking and powerful and “a haunting American tragedy for our times” ( Entertainment Weekly )

But Lachlan Gage is as lethal as he is beautiful

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realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on

they fight to survive through unimaginable cruelty and hardship