The Land of Green Plums
The Land of Green Plums
ISBN: 9780810115972
出版社: Northwestern University Press
出版年: 1995-12-15
页数: 242
定价: GBP 15.50
装帧: Paperback
原作名: Herztier
内容简介
The Land of Green Plums is the story of a group of young people in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania. Having left their impoverished villages for University in search of education and camaraderie, yet largely unprepared for urban life by their provincial childhoods, the youths quickly find their hopes dashed: the city no less than the countryside bears the mark of the dictator's corrosive touch.Soon the focus of political suspicion, the narrator and her friends feel the impact of an oppressive regime: constant surveillance, harassment, humiliating interrogations, police brutality. Eventually, the friends betray each other and themselves: as they do, we see the way the totalitarian state comes to inhabit every human realm and how everyone, even the strongest, must either bend to the oppressors or resist them and thereby perish.
作者简介
赫塔·米勒（Herta Müller），1953年8月17日生于罗马尼亚蒂米什县一个农民家庭，村庄以德语为通用语言。1982年，处女作短篇小说集《低地》出版。1987年与丈夫小说家理查德·瓦格移居西德，现常居柏林。
赫塔·米勒曾多次获德国的文学奖项，2009年获诺贝尔文学奖。