Picture yourself being born into the age of dictatorship, where everything you do is overseen and monitored by a harsh ruler. The lifestyle of the narrator in The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller is not a desirable one. This novel tells a tale of four young people living in the time of Nicolae Ceausescu who was Romania’s reigning communist dictator from 1965 to 1989. The characters in this story leave their impoverished villages in search of education at the universities. Their hope for a better life is squashed when the city showed a mark of the ruler no less than in the country. Throughout the story, each of the characters is impacted by their government. The nameless narrator immigrated to Germany a few years after leaving the university
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She was born in Romania in 1953, and was a minority because her native language is German. Muller’s father was a part of Hitler's Waffen SS, and her mother was deported to Russia to work as free labor. As a young writer, she openly criticized communist dictatorship which had negative responses from the government. She has written a handful of books, with most being translated into over twenty languages. Many of her works were censored in Romania because they often contained disapproval of the communist party. Herta Muller writes in varieties of mediums including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Most of Muller’s work has themes of oppression within them and is set in the communist dictatorship of Romania. A good example would be her 2009 novel called the Hunger Angel, which is a tale of deportation of Romania’s German minorities. Herta Muller is a very well known writer, and a lot of her works include a woman's experience conforming to state and …show more content…
This novel was well written and has a very good plot. This story had many interesting aspects and twists such as when Lola turned against her by joining the party. It was thrilling to wonder what was going to happen to the four friends on their journey in life given hardships. The outcomes of the book may have not been happy but it showed the reader what it was like to live in the time of Nicolae Ceausescu. Therefore, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about tyranny, communism, and fear. Muller simply asks her readers if it the price to pay for speaking for staying silent by opening and ending the book with, “When we don’t speak we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of
She was born in Romania in 1953, and was a minority because her native language is German. Muller’s father was a part of Hitler's Waffen SS, and her mother was deported to Russia to work as free labor. As a young writer, she openly criticized communist dictatorship which had negative responses from the government. She has written a handful of books, with most being translated into over twenty languages. Many of her works were censored in Romania because they often contained disapproval of the communist party. Herta Muller writes in varieties of mediums including novels, poems, essays and short stories. Most of Muller’s work has themes of oppression within them and is set in the communist dictatorship of Romania. A good example would be her 2009 novel called the Hunger Angel, which is a tale of deportation of Romania’s German minorities. Herta Muller is a very well known writer, and a lot of her works include a woman's experience conforming to state and …show more content…
This novel was well written and has a very good plot. This story had many interesting aspects and twists such as when Lola turned against her by joining the party. It was thrilling to wonder what was going to happen to the four friends on their journey in life given hardships. The outcomes of the book may have not been happy but it showed the reader what it was like to live in the time of Nicolae Ceausescu. Therefore, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about tyranny, communism, and fear. Muller simply asks her readers if it the price to pay for speaking for staying silent by opening and ending the book with, “When we don’t speak we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of