The Appointment: A NovelMuller, Herta;Hulse, Michael;Boehm, Philip
9780805042955
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel
Herta Muller; Michael Hofmann
ISBN 10: 0805042954 / 0-8050-4295-4
ISBN 13: 9780805042955
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780805042955
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
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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. But their hopes are ravaged, because the city, no less than the countryside, bears everywhere the mark of the dictatorship's corrosive touch. All the narrator's friends - teachers and students of vaguely dissident allegiance - betray her, do away with themselves, or both. 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. Herta Muller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu's police state, speaks from intimate experience.
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"Not a pretty picture by any means, but, still, a powerful, affecting story--one that makes clear the real value of small triumphs and fleeting moments of happiness when they occur in the context of deprivation and incalculable loss."
Kirkus, 09/15/1996
Review:"In Herta Mıller's Romania, work, family, friendships, love are all perverted by a system that destroys their meaning."
Elizabeth Shostak, Boston Book Review, March 1997
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