Romania

Land of Green Plums
by Herta Müller

“No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it is being watched.”

Nobel prize-winner Herta Muller, who was forced to leave Romania in 1987, is the author of this semi-autobiographical novel about a group of students for whom freedom is a seemingly impossible aspiration.

Translated by Michael Hofmann
Granta Publications, 1996
First published in 1993
ISBN 9781862072602