Muller Herta
Muller Herta - The Land Of Green Plums A Novel - Paperback
Muller Herta - The Land Of Green Plums A Novel - Paperback
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Description: 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 M ller 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" M ller anatomizes a country and its citizens and the corruption that has rotted the core of both.
Title: The Land Of Green Plums A Novel
Author(s): Muller Herta
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780312429942
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/23/2010
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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 M ller 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" M ller anatomizes a country and its citizens and the corruption that has rotted the core of both.
Title: The Land Of Green Plums A Novel
Author(s): Muller Herta
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9780312429942
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/23/2010
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
