Novels by Herta Müller
The Land of Green Plums, Everything I Possess I Carry With Me, Nadirs, the Appointment, Traveling on One Leg
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Land of Green Plums, Everything I Possess I Carry With Me, Nadirs, the Appointment, Traveling on One Leg, the Passport. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Land of Green Plums (German: ) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Muller, published in 1993 by Rowohlt Verlag. The novel portrays four young people living in and fleeing from the totalitarian police state under the Soviet-imposed communist dictatorship in Romania. The narrator is a young woman of the German minority much like the author herself. Muller wrote it, she said, "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceauescu regime." It was published in an English translation by Michael Hofmann in 1996, by Metropolitan Books in New York. A new edition in English was published by Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press in 1998. The English translation of the novel won the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest prize for a single work of fiction published in English, in 1998. Following the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums entered the bestseller list on Amazon.com. The unnamed narrator describes her life in Romania before leaving for Germany. The novel is organized chronologically and begins in a college dormitory, with reflections of her life at home dispersed throughout the novel; it ends after the narrator and one of her friends have emigrated to Germany. The first character introduced to the reader is a young girl called Lola, who shares a room with five other girls, including the narrator, in a college dormitory. Lola's experiences are preserved in her diary, and she relates how she finds an escape from the totalitarian world of school and society by rid...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2464886
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