He and his wife were executed on Christmas Day in 1989.
Translated into English in 1996 by Michael Hofmann, the book illustrates how dissidents from the Germany minority in Romania were doubly persecuted under the regime of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu, a communist dictator who repressed his people for twenty-four years. Müller dedicated the novel to the memory of her Romanian friends killed under the CeauÅŸescu regime. She belongs to the ethnic German minority living in Romania. The narrator-protagonist is a young woman who remains unidentified throughout the novel. Probably Müller’s best-known work, the story is centered on four young people living in a totalitarian police state in Communist Romania. The Land of Green Plums (1994) is the third novel by Nobel laureate German writer Herta Müller.
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