中图分类法:	I 版次：
题名:	The Land of Green Plums / ,
出版发行:	出版地：出版社： Picador USA 出版日期： 2010
载体形态:	258
附注:	Paperback
内容提要:	Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescus 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 dictatorships corrosive touch. All the narrators 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 Müller, herself a survivor of Ceausescus 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--Müller anatomizes a country and its citizens and the corruption that has rotted the core of both. show more