Traveling on One Leg

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Traveling on One Leg is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller that explores exile, alienation, and identity through the fragmented experiences of a Romanian woman who emigrates to West Germany.

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instanceOf novel
author Herta Müller
authorAward Nobel Prize in Literature
authorAwardedNobelPrizeInLiteratureYear 2009
countryOfOrigin Germany
criticalReception acclaimed by literary critics
depicts life of an emigrant in West Germany
surveillance and fear under dictatorship
explores difficulty of forming relationships in exile
psychological effects of migration
genre exile literature
literary fiction
psychological fiction
hasFemaleProtagonist true
hasForm prose
hasMotif bodily fragmentation
border crossings
language and silence
hasPageCountApprox 150
hasStructure episodic
hasTitleVariant Reisende auf einem Bein
hasTranslation English
isPartOfAuthorOeuvre Herta Müller novels about dictatorship and exile
languageOfProtagonistOrigin Romanian
literaryMovement postmodernism
literaryPeriod late 20th century
mainCharacter Irene
narrativePerspective third-person limited
narrativeStyle fragmented
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Reisende auf einem Bein
protagonistNationality Romanian
publisherOfEnglishEdition Northwestern University Press
relatedWorkByAuthor Nadirs
The Appointment
The Land of Green Plums
setting Romania
West Germany
targetAudience adult readers
theme alienation
displacement
exile
identity
memory
political oppression
translatedBy Valerie Tekavec

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Herta Müller notableWork Traveling on One Leg