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Biographical note
Born in Romania in 1953, Herta Müller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. A renowned novelist, poet and essayist, Müller won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009.A powerful autobiographical account, The Land of Green Plums ... will linger on in the mind and Michael Hofmann's translation is a marvel
Guardian
The Land of Green Plums is a miracle, a fearless human testimony which operates through the combined force of Müller's tight, understated eloquence and Hofmann's deft, atmospheric translation
Irish Times
If W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants suggested there are still new ways of writing about exile and the Holocaust, The Land of Green Plums promises similar possibilities for the literature of the Iron Curtain
Literary Review
Compelling reading
Sunday Times
... genuinely moving. The book ... develops an almost hypnotic power over the reader
Sunday Telegraph
Herta Müller ... is among the finest writers of protest ... The Land of Green Plums is a miracle
Irish Independent
Müller's clarity and compassion leaves all the weeping to the reader
New Statesman
taut, marvellously translated
Observer
Poetic and powerful
Express
This book cannot fail to impress
Big Issue in the North
No number of re-readings will lessen the impact of Muller's ... terrifying masterpiece
The Irish Times
Since publication the novel's reputation has been steadily growing
Irish Independent
As a depiction of a world where you have to be very careful what you say, The Land of Green Plums works hauntingly, disturbingly well
- Nick Lezard, Guardian
Nothing I have read brings home more the horror of a society which combined agrarian backwardness with the monstrosities of the one-party state
- Anne McElvoy, Evening Standard