A review by lauren_endnotes
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller

"All the people who went around the city carrying their provinces with them sniffed at their hands. They didn't know the books from the summerhouse. But they wanted to go there. In the land those books came from, there were blue jeans and oranges, soft toys for children and portable TVs... whisper-thin nylons and real mascara..."

From THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS [Herztier] by Herta Müller, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, 1993/1996.

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