![]() Normal human relationships are rendered impossible by the lack of freedom of expression the threat of violence, imprisonment, and execution and the possibility that any personal friend may be a traitor. Critics read the novel as testifying to abuse and the ensuing trauma. Those who flee the country for Germany become cultural outcasts: they are not considered German there but rather Eastern Europeans. The rural German-speaking community tries to preserve its culture by enforcing traditional rules once the main characters escape this environment through university study in the city, they suffer, as political dissidents, the oppression exercised by the totalitarian regime. ![]() ![]() Like many of Müller's books, The Land of Green Plums illustrates the position of dissidents from the German minority in Romania, who suffered a double oppression under the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. ![]()
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