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Author Müller, Herta, 1953-

Title The land of green plums : a novel / Herta Müller ; translated by Michael Hofmann
Edition First Picador edition
Published New York : Picador, 2010

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 W'BOOL  857.034 M9582 A6/L3H  AVAILABLE
Description 258 pages ; 21 cm
Summary The lives of a group of Romanian students under Communism, with its poverty, regimentation and depressing greyness. Life gets no better after graduation, so much so that several commit suicide
Notes "A Metropolitan Book."
Includes the Nobel lecture of Herta Müller, "Every word know something of a vicious circle," delivered Dec. 7, 2009; translated by Philip Boehm (p. [243]-258)
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 1998
Subject Political corruption -- Fiction.
Totalitarianism -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Romania -- History -- 1944-1989 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115013 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Political fiction.
Author Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
ISBN 9780312429942
0312429940
Other Titles Herztier. English