Herta Müller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu's police state, speaks from intimate experience. 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. All the narrator's friends-teachers and students of vaguely dissident allegiance-betray her, do away with themselves, or both. But their hopes are ravaged, because the city, no less than the countryside, bears everywhere the mark of the dictatorship's corrosive touch. 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.
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