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The Land of Green Plums
The Land of Green Plums () is a novel by Herta Müller, published in 1994 by Rowohlt Verlag. Perhaps Müller's best-known work, the story portrays four young people living in a totalitarian police state in Communist Romania, ending with their emigration to Germany. The narrator is an unidentified young woman belonging to the ethnic German minority. Müller said the novel was written "in memory of my Romanian friends who were killed under the Ceauşescu regime".
Like many of Müller's
Anders Olsson, member of the Swedish Academy, referred to "The Land of Green Plums" as "a masterful account of the flight of a group of youths from the terror regime". Immediately following the announcement, sales of this and Müller's other novels (five had been translated into English by then) skyrocketed: "On Thursday morning, when the award was announced, "The Land of Green Plums", by all accounts Müller's best book, was No. 56,359 on Amazon.com; by the close of