Land of Green Plums A Novel

Name: Land of Green Plums A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312429942

ISBN-10: 0312429940

ISBN-13: 9780312429942

Edition: N/A

Authors: Herta MA1/4ller, Michael Hofmann, Herta Mï¿½ller

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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 oppressors or resist them and thereby perish. Herta…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 11/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.56" wide x 8.28" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English