"Every Word Sitting with Other Eyes" is a collection of essays that brings together nine articles by Herta Miller on different themes. The author uses cold and surreal poetic language to express his inner feelings about the real environment and his feelings about the displaced living conditions. To sum up, different articles show the author's concern for the true dignity of human nature and the poet's mind.
First published in 2003, this book is an outstanding prose work by the Nobel Prize winner. It expounds the theme of his novel and his life insights in a clear and direct style, allowing you to better enter the author's spiritual world. The author's dual identity as a foreigner and the resulting perspective of an onlooker, coupled with her sensitivity to the language medium, make her articles very enlightening to read.