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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 students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustration of a totalitarian state which comes to inhabit every aspect of life; to the extent that everyone, event the strongest, must either bend to the oppressors, or resist them and perish.
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Born in Romania in 1953, Herta Muller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. A renowned novelist, poet and essayist, Muller won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.
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Brilliant. A heart-breaking and thought-provoking novel.,
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This review is from: The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
Herta Muller uses delicate imagaery (factory workers making 'tin sheep and wooden melons') to convey the quiet desperation lurking behind the fake, fixed smiles of ordinary citizens in the police state of communist Romania. The narrator leaves her poor country village to go to the city, where she hopes to find some meaning in her life. Instead she finds that no matter how hard she tries, she cannot stop the fear and despair that comes to infiltrate her every waking moment ('In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear'). Muller wonderfully evokes the harsh reality of the totalitarian state were, in having their freedom and ability to make their own choices taken away from them, human beings are reduced to zombies. A bleak and heart-rending story, but one which nonetheless has to be told.
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This review is from: The Land of Green Plums: A Novel (Hardcover)
I read the book after the author won the Nobel Prize and I knew a bit about her and about the subject of her writing .Being Romanian myself I had my doubts about enjoying it . Well , I was in for a huge surprise ! I can't say what was most enjoyable , the story itself with episodes that seamed so real and so easy to identify with the life experience of probably 90% of the people that lived in Romania at that time (not necessary the one related to fear and surveillance) or the way the poetry is felt underneath every sentence trying to mellow the crude experience of the characters . My only regret is that she writes in German and I do not have any knowledge of German - but even though , definitely the best modern book I read for a long , long time !
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Experiencing fear,
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This review is from: The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
This book by 2009 Nobel Prize winner is well worth reading to obtain an ever heightening feel as to what it must have been like in Ceaucescu's Romania especially if as in the case of Muller herself you were a part of a minority (especially the German minority. The book is easy to read as it is divided into short 'paragraph' like chapters, I think the most impressive bit for me, was a meeting in college to deselect from the Party a student who had committed suicide, and the unilateral need to be counted on the right side. How would I have responded in a similar position, is a very difficult question to answer.The Land of Green Plums
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