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The Land of Green Plums
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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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 Müller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu's police state, speaks from intimate experience. Scene by scene, in language at once harsh and poetic, she constructs a devastating picture of a society and a generation ruined by fear. In simple images of hieroglyphic power—policeman filling their pockets and mouths with green plums; girls sleeping with abattoir workers for bags of offal; a docile proletariat making things no one wants—"tin sheep and wooden watermelons"—Müller anatomizes a country and its citizens and the corruption that has rotted the core of both.
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Graywacke
Graywacke
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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This 1993 novel was rejuvenated when Müller won the Nobel Prize. It is powerful, but tough going and I struggled through (but felt it!). A series of sketches of life as a college-educated political dissident under CeauÈ™escu, with constant harassment, abuse, economic strain and suicides. Relentlessly bleak.

Suet624 I‘m curious about this one but I‘m not sure I can handle more bleak. 1y
Graywacke @Suet624 Müller has a thing for soul destroying books. 1y
Suet624 😊😩😳 1y
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batsy I have this one on my tbr. I figured it would be grim but now I know I should be thoroughly prepared. 1y
Graywacke @batsy i had to read it in a bunch of short stretches. 1y
Graywacke @Suet624 yeah, all those emojis 🙂 1y
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Graywacke
Graywacke
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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Trying to get into this view of Romania under CeauÈ™escu. Normally I easily embrace these impressionistic sketches. But I‘ve been reading fun stuff lately, including a lot of Chaucer, and I think I‘m struggling a bit to be a properly horrified mindset. 🙂 Anyway, getting going.

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JenniferP
JenniferP
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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Challenging novel by a #nobelprize winning author about a group of young people living in Romania during Ceausescu‘s reign. Vivid picture of living through a surveillance police state, though I also felt kept at arms length, either because I don‘t have a good background in the era, or it was too personal for the author to really let us in to her experience.

BarbaraBB It sounds interesting. A scary state to live in in those years. 2y
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Tove_Reads
Tove_Reads
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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It‘s that time again â¤ï¸â¤ï¸â¤ï¸ Beautiful flowers! Goes somehow well with the book #Romania #readingtheworld

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tricours
tricours
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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I'm so bad at finding books for the photo challenges! But here's #fruit for #maybookflowers! Anyone who's read it? I haven't, but I love the edition. And hey, this one has an eye on it as well ğŸ˜

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Kitta
Kitta
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann
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This looks like such a great list! Thanks @bookriot

http://bookriot.com/2016/04/28/around-world-80-books-global-reading-list/

The book I tagged is from Romania 🇷🇴 and on my tbr!

saresmoore Fun! 8y
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GoneFishing
GoneFishing
The Land of Green Plums: A Novel | Herta Müller, Michael Hofmann

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

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