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)