The land of green plums : a novel /
Müller, Herta, 1953-
The land of green plums : a novel / Herta Müller ; translated by Michael Hofmann. - 1st Picador ed. - New York : Picador, 2010. - 258 pages ; 21 cm
Includes Herta Müller's Nobel lecture, delivered Dec. 7, 2009.
Every word knows something of a vicious circle / Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm Nobel lecture: (p. [243]-258).
Five Romanian students under the Ceaușescu regime struggle to better their lives. Through the suicide of a mutual friend, the unnamed narrator meets a trio of young men with whom she shares a subjugated political and philosophic rebelliousness. The jobs the state assigns them after graduation pull each to a different quadrant of the country, and this, as well as the narrator's new friendship with the daughter of a prominent Party member, strains their relations. The group manages to maintain its closeness despite this, through coded letters.
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998.
9780312429942 0312429940
96007305
Political corruption--Fiction.
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Political fiction.
Romania--History--1944-1989--Fiction.
Political fiction.
The land of green plums : a novel / Herta Müller ; translated by Michael Hofmann. - 1st Picador ed. - New York : Picador, 2010. - 258 pages ; 21 cm
Includes Herta Müller's Nobel lecture, delivered Dec. 7, 2009.
Every word knows something of a vicious circle / Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm Nobel lecture: (p. [243]-258).
Five Romanian students under the Ceaușescu regime struggle to better their lives. Through the suicide of a mutual friend, the unnamed narrator meets a trio of young men with whom she shares a subjugated political and philosophic rebelliousness. The jobs the state assigns them after graduation pull each to a different quadrant of the country, and this, as well as the narrator's new friendship with the daughter of a prominent Party member, strains their relations. The group manages to maintain its closeness despite this, through coded letters.
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998.
9780312429942 0312429940
96007305
Political corruption--Fiction.
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Political fiction.
Romania--History--1944-1989--Fiction.
Political fiction.