”Citation”. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 december 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101216210437/http://impacdublinaward.ie/winner98citation.doc. Läst 9 december 2010. ”The novel brilliantly evokes a world of cruelty and oppression. Set in Communist Romania under the Ceaucescu dictatorship, The Land of Green Plums portrays the lives of a group of dissident students and teachers whose integrity is continuously assailed and sometimes betrayed. Herta Müller's stark and vivid prose explores a terror-stricken society of mendacity and political slander. The "green plums" of the title stand in part for truth and its brutal suppression in a world of interrogators and informers, where speaking out can become a matter of life and death.
The author's style, achieves a spartan eloquence, and the novel's individual characters are powerfully drawn.
This elegantly understated book is at once bleak and beautiful, humorous and heartbreaking.”
”Citation”. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 december 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101216210437/http://impacdublinaward.ie/winner98citation.doc. Läst 9 december 2010. ”The novel brilliantly evokes a world of cruelty and oppression. Set in Communist Romania under the Ceaucescu dictatorship, The Land of Green Plums portrays the lives of a group of dissident students and teachers whose integrity is continuously assailed and sometimes betrayed. Herta Müller's stark and vivid prose explores a terror-stricken society of mendacity and political slander. The "green plums" of the title stand in part for truth and its brutal suppression in a world of interrogators and informers, where speaking out can become a matter of life and death.
The author's style, achieves a spartan eloquence, and the novel's individual characters are powerfully drawn.
This elegantly understated book is at once bleak and beautiful, humorous and heartbreaking.”
