| Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen | |
| Author: | Herta Müller |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | Poetry, collage |
| Publisher: | Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich |
| Pub Date: | August 2012 |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Isbn: | 978-3-446-23857-2 |
Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen (Father's on the Phone with the Flies) is a collection of collage poems by Nobel Prize-winning writer Herta Müller first published in 2012.[1] The 191 collages are divided between five sections.[2] As with most of Müller's work, one of the collection's underlying themes is political, stemming from her experience living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Communist Romania.[3]
A selection of 73 of the poems was published in English in 2018, translated by Thomas Cooper, alongside the German originals.[4]