The big news in Nobel Prize winning today is that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
BUT the literary world is all hot and bothered over yesterday's announcement that the Nobel Prize for Literature went to the German writer Herta Muller. Some say the committee is too Euro-centric, some say the winners are too obscure, some say what about Stephanie Meyer, hmmm? But I'm okay with their choice. The 56 year old, Romanian born Muller sounds like a great choice. Her tales mostly deal with oppression and suffering under Communist dictatorship. Actually, I'm kind of in to that now that I just finished reading Jung Chang's account of living in Mao's Communist China. Heavy stuff but very interesting.
I'm not quite sure how to get a hold of one her books, though, as Barnes and Noble is currently sold out of her novels. However, they are offering a used hardcover copy of one of her most well known works The Land of Green Plums, for $599, in case you're interested.
And I'm interested. But not $599 interested.
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$599?! That's a mistake, right?!
ReplyDeleteNow, I'm interested but I hear you girl not for $599.00. B&N are evidentially smoking crack. Don't they read the headlines?
ReplyDeleteCrack kills!!
Yikes! I guess that must mean obama's books are all sold out too, eh? Oh darn it.
ReplyDelete$599? Can't you just get it from the library?
ReplyDeleteHoly stinkin' cow! $599 can buy a whole lot of things, but I never thought to spend it on a book. That had best be a mistake.
ReplyDelete$599 crazy! What about the library? At our library you can put holds on books. Even the popular ones you only have to wait a few weeks before it comes back in.
ReplyDeleteTempting..but think of what else I could get for that much!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I wouldn't even pay $599 for one of Stephanie Meyer's books...sheesh!
ReplyDeleteI had to read that last part again, because I figured that if it cost $599 then it must include a house or trip to Hawaii. SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteThat is nuts!
Wow...that's a crazy price.
ReplyDeleteWhat Jung Chang book did you just finish? Was it Wild Swans? I read that a few years ago and it positively haunted me for several months afterward. Just could not stop thinking about the things she wrote about in that book.