TY  - BOOK
AU  - Müller,Herta
AU  - Hofmann,Michael
TI  - The land of green plums: a novel 
SN  - 9780312429942
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Romania
KW  - History
KW  - 1944-1989
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes Herta Müller's Nobel lecture, delivered Dec. 7, 2009; Nobel lecture; Every word knows something of a vicious circle; Herta Müller ; translated by Philip Boehm; (p. [243]-258)
N2  - 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
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