Quotes from book
The Hunger Angel

The Hunger Angel
Herta Müller Original title Atemschaukel (German, 2009)

The Hunger Angel is a 304-page prose poem by Herta Müller. The English translation is by Philip Boehm .

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“How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry. If you can't think of anything else.”

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Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17–18

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“Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 74

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“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”

Herta Müller book The Hunger Angel

Source: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 149