Because, except for Lola, anyone could have been that someone. Someone asked, Where are you going? … Maybe, in those first three years in the little room, I was that someone. At this point, the narrator has not yet distinguished herself: When the affair becomes a burden to him, she is found hanged in the dormitory. The novel begins in the dormitory of a girl’s university, focusing initially on Lola, a country girl, who embarks on a series of sexual liaisons with strangers and eventually becomes involved with a Party official. You may order this title by clicking on the link corresponding to your delivery region below: orders are fulfilled by our partners at Amazon. This process and the resultant mental deteriorations, betrayals and suicides is the subject of Muller’s third novel, the prize-winning The Land Of Green Plums (1993 translated by the poet Michael Hoffman). They soon came under the scrutiny of the Romanian Secret Services, leading to expulsion from university, harassment and interrogation. At university, Muller became involved in a group of German-speaking students who formed Aktionsgruppe Banat. Muller’s own father served in the SS, and remained unrepentant to his death. That minority were embraced by Hitler as part of the greater Germany, and many served in the German army in WWII. McCarthy HERTA MULLER was born in 1953 in the Banat region of Romania, home to a German-speaking minority incorporated into Romania in 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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