The Land of Green Plums
Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province 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 oppresso…
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Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-312-42994-2
- EAN: 9780312429942
- Produktnummer: 5969311
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.3 cm 267 g
- Gewicht: 267
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Herta Müller; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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