The Land of Green Plums: A Novel

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AuthorMüller, Herta
PublisherMetropolitan Books
Bindinghardcover
PublishedNovember 15, 1996
EditionFirst Edition
LanguageEnglish
Pages242
ISBN-100805042954
ISBN-139780805042955
Weight0.9 lb
Dimensions
H × W × L		 1.0 in × 5.5 in × 8.3 in

The Land of Green Plums: A Novel

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from The Winner Of The Intertantional Impac Dublin Literary Award And The 2009 Nobel Prize In Literature, A Devastating Picture Of A Society And A Generation Ruined By Fear   set In Romania At The Height Of Ceausescu's Reign Of Terror, the Land Of Green Plums is The Story Of A Group Of Young People Who Leave The Impoverished Provinces For The City In Search Of Better Prospects And Camaraderie. Their Hopes Are Quickly Dashed: The City, No Less Than The...

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from The Winner Of The Intertantional Impac Dublin Literary Award And The 2009 Nobel Prize In Literature, A Devastating Picture Of A Society And A Generation Ruined By Fear

 

set In Romania At The Height Of Ceausescu's Reign Of Terror, the Land Of Green Plums is The Story Of A Group Of Young People Who Leave The Impoverished Provinces For The City In Search Of Better Prospects And Camaraderie. Their Hopes Are Quickly Dashed: The City, No Less Than The Countryside, Bears The Mark Of The Dictatorship's Corrosive Touch. All Of The Narrator's Friends Come To Betray One another And Themselves. The Totalitarian State, We See, Has come To Inhabit Every Human Realm: Everyone, Even The Strongest, Must Either Bend To The Oppressors Or Resist Them And Perish.

herta Müller, Herself A Survivor Of Ceausescu's Police State, Speaks From Intimate Experience. Scene By Scene, In Simple Images Of Hieroglyphic Power—men Filling Their Mouths With Unripe Plums; Girls Sleeping With Abattoir Workers For Bags Of Offal; A Docile Proletariat Making Things No One Wants—tin Sheep And Wooden Watermelons—müller Anatomizes A Country, Its Citizens, And The Corruption That Has Rotted The Core Of Both.

new York Times Book Review - Larry Wolff

muller's Vision . . .reads Like A Kind Of Fairy Tale On The Mingled Evils Of Gluttony, Stupidity And Brutality.


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