The Hunger Angel Herta Muller
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Warning: The following post contains major spoilers for Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay (the third and final installment of the Hunger Games series). Steve Volk, FRINGE-OLOGY; Kim Tredick, BrainQuest; & Drew Adamek reviews THE HUNGER ANGEL by Herta Müller. Angel Santiesteban Cuban political prisoner Angel Santiesteban is currently on hunger strike, after he was transferred to one of the Castro gulag's most notorious prisons. The anticipated movie trailer of the second installment of The Hunger Games. Above all he is the object of hunger. Sam Taylor for Laurent Binet, HHhH (Harvill Secker). Victoria's Secret Angel-The Hunger Games-First Dibs-Purchase-Peeta. Recently many news outlets have focused on the problem of food waste, apparently nearly half of the food grown and produced in the world is wasted, amazingly this is about 2 billion tonnes. This seems like a certainty when they find that the victims' hearts are marked with the angelic brand of a cupid, which Castiel helpfully identifies as essentially a low-class angel. A couple of days ago, I decided to get my brother, two cousins and self to a cineplex to watch The Hunger Games. I must say that I left that cinema quite amazed and I'm still amazed. It's a landscape of slag and gravel, digging and deprivation, always accompanied by the "hunger angel" of the title: "everything I did was hungry," Leopold says. So the symbolism of peasant farmers protesting GMO corn with a hunger strike in front of a monument celebrating Mexico's independence from Spain (Mexico City's Angel of Independence) is significant. First published in 2009, the same year that she received the Nobel Prize, it is (like much of her work) deeply political. Philip Boehm for Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel (Portobello). The Hunger Angel was my introduction to the work of Herta Müller. So how does The Hunger Angel expand our consciousness of this well-worn material? Premiered on Sunday during the MTV Movie Awards 2013. Frank Wynne for Alonso Cueto, The Blue Hour (Heinemann). First dibs on our next gift with purchase coming next week.