![]() Herta Muller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu's police state, speaks from intimate experience. As they do so, we see the way the totalitarian state comes to inhabit every human realm and how everyone, even the strongest, must either bend to the oppressors or resist them and thereby perish. All the narrator's friends - teachers and students of vaguely dissident allegiance - betray her, do away with themselves, or both. ![]() The work centers on the German minority in Romania under the regime of Nicolae. But their hopes are ravaged, because the city, no less than the countryside, bears everywhere the mark of the dictatorship's corrosive touch. The Land of Green Plums, the third novel by Nobel laureate Herta Mller, was first published in Berlin in 1993. Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie. Like the narrator of her novel The Land of Green Plums, Herta Muller grew up a German minority in Ceausescus Romania, which she eventually left to settle. ![]() ![]() The land of green plums : a novel / Herta Muller translated by Michael Hofmann Book Bib ID ![]()
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