Nadirs (autobiography)

Nadirs (Niederungen) is a collection of largely autobiographical short stories by Romanian-German writer and Nobel laureate Herta Müller. The stories center on life in the Romanian countryside.

The book was first released in Romania in 1982, where it received a prize awarded by the Central Committee of the Union of Communist Youth. A supposedly uncensored version, missing four chapters of the Romanian version, was smuggled to Germany and released in 1984.

Stories

 * The Funeral Sermon
 * The Swabian Bath
 * My Family
 * Nadirs
 * Rotten Pears
 * Oppressive Tango
 * The Window
 * The Man with the Matchbox
 * Village Chronicle
 * About German Mustaches and Hair Parts
 * The Intervillage Bus
 * Mother, Father, and the Little One
 * The Street Sweepers
 * Black Park
 * Workday