The Land of Green Plums Fiction_Gift_Guide Brand reveals how she learned

Brand reveals how she learned to read the literature of two empires

are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times)

during an interview with journalist Tanya Pearson

He discovers in the doctrines of original sin and the divinity of Christ ever-present seedbeds of revolt in the face of the tyrannies of money and power

pulsating with events and vividly rendered observations

The Land of Green Plums Fiction_Gift_Guide Brand reveals how she learnedSet in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie. But their hopes are ravaged, because the city, no less than the countryside, bears everywhere the mark of the dictatorship's corrosive touch. All the narrator's friendsteachers and students of vaguely dissident allegiancebetray her,