The Land of Green Plums

This Nobel Prize-winning novel by Herta Müller tells the devastating story of a group of young people in Romania who leave their impoverished provinces for the city in search of better prospects, only to find themselves in a society and a generation ruined by fear. The dictatorship's corrosive touch has infected every human realm, leading even the strongest to bend to the oppressors or resist and perish. Through scenes of unique power, Müller anatomizes a country and its citizens, revealing a corruption that has rotted the core of both.