The Land of Green Plums Fiction_Gift_Guide Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical

Recanati Professor at Harvard Medical School and author of The Anatomy of Hope

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an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love

The Land of Green Plums Fiction_Gift_Guide Recanati Professor at Harvard MedicalSet 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,