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Good Reads

Books we're reading at the station and recommend to you.When we're not on-the-air or at our desks, we like to pick up good books. Most of us here at the station are, in fact, avid readers. In the style of NPR's "What We're Reading" (an excellent weekly guide) we, too, decided to share what we've been reading. Here's a list of books recently read by WKMS staff members, student workers and volunteers.Interested in a book on our list? Follow the Amazon link beneath the picture. A small percentage of your purchase of anything on Amazon through this link goes right to WKMS at no additional cost to you!

Good Read: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller

WKMS | By John Griffin

Published June 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM CDT

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Muller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu’s Romania. New York Times writes, “… a novel of graphically observed detail in which the author seeks to create a sort of poetry out of the spiritual and material ugliness of life in Communist Romania.”

John Griffin says:
“The Land of Green Plums is the story of a group of young people in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania. As the friends betray each other, we see how the totalitarian state inhabits every aspect of human existence. Of German heritage, Mueller suffered repeated threats from the Ceausescu government before finally being able to emigrate in 1987. Muller is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.”