Tuesday 26 January 2010

Herta Muller: The Land of Green Plums

This was perhaps the toughest assignment for the book club so far.

We all ploughed through Michael Hoffmann's translation of this grim novel,, set in Romania at the height of Ceausecu's regime.

It is a frightful, grim shocking account of how low humanity can stoop and how miserable life can be

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