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Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett

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Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett
First edition
AuthorHerta Müller
LanguageGerman
GenreEssaycollection
PublisherEuropäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg
Publication date
1992
Pages77
ISBN978-3-434-50014-8

Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett(A Warm Potato is a Warm Bed) is a collection ofessaysbyNobel Prize-winning authorHerta Müller,first published in 1992.[1]The essays were previously published as columns in the monthly Swiss publicationDubetween 1990 and 1992.[2][3]

The title comes from one of the cryptic phrases that Müller's mother used in discussing thegulagsof theSocialist Republic of Romania.The title essay, written in 1991, was later expanded into a 304-page prose poem calledAtemschaukel(The Hunger Angel).[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^Eke, N.O. (2017).Herta Müller-Handbuch(in German). J.B. Metzler. p. 59.ISBN978-3-476-05401-2.Retrieved25 July2018.
  2. ^Eine warme Kartoffel ist ein warmes Bett.Stanford Libraries. 1992.ISBN9783434500148.Retrieved23 July2018.{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)
  3. ^Rock, David; Wolff, Stefan (2002).Coming Home to Germany?: The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic.Berghahn Books. p. 186.ISBN978-1-57181-729-7.
  4. ^Haines, Brigid; Marven, Lyn (20 June 2013).Herta Müller.Oxford University Press. pp. 124–126.ISBN978-0-19-166959-0.Retrieved23 July2018.

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