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Authors: Herta Müller
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter (26 page)
The smallest man carries the biggest cane
I can’t stand looking at the water when it’s so cold out
There was a time and is no more
That doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter at all
T
HE
F
OX
W
AS
E
VER THE
H
UNTER.
Copyright © 2009 by Carl Hanser Verlag
Translation copyright © 2016 by Philip Boehm. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Originally published in Germany in 1992 under the title
Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger
by Rowohlt Verlag.
Cover photograph © Andrej Pandele/EST & OST Photography
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Müller, Herta, 1953– author.
[Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger. English]
The fox was ever the hunter: a novel / Herta Müller; translated by Philip Boehm.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-8050-9302-5 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8050-9602-6 (electronic book)
1. Romania—History—1944–1989—Fiction. 2. Political fiction. I. Boehm, Philip, translator. II. Title.
PT2673.U29234F8313 2016
833’.914—dc23
2015032783
The translator would like to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center for their generous support in making this book available in English.
First U.S. Edition: May 2016
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
