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by Herta Muller; Herta M. Ller; Michael Hulse (Translator)


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WINNER OF THE 2009 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

From the winner of the IMPAC Award, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life

"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me," the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.

As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary, to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them, to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers, and to Paul, her lover, her one source of trust, despite his constant drunkenness. In her distraction, she misses her stop to find herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the appointment pale by comparison.

Herta Muller pitilessly renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime. Bone-spare and intense, "The Appointment" confirms her standing as one of Europe's greatest writers."

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I've been summoned. Thursday, at ten sharp.

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  • Title The Appointment
  • Author Herta Muller; Herta M. Ller; Michael Hulse (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York
  • Date 2002
  • ISBN 9780312420543 / 0312420544
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.52 x 0.64 in (20.98 x 14.02 x 1.63 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002067328
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Born in Romania in 1953, Herta Muller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the European Literature Prize, she has also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her previous novel, "The Land of Green Plums.""
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