Herta Muller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu's police state, speaks from intimate experience. As they do so we see the way that the totalitarian state comes to inhabit every aspect of life and how everyone, even the strongest, must either bend to the oppressors or resist them and thereby perish. In turn, each of the narrator's friends betrays her, commits suicide or both.
Any hope they may have had for themselves and their future is dashed because the city, no less than the countryside, bears the mark of the dictatorship's corrosive touch. Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects.
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