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The Appointment
Herta Muller
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Description for The Appointment
Paperback. Paperback outing for the first novel from Muller since she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature: a fierce and finely-wrought novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life Translator(s): Hulse, Michael; Boehm, Philip. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it 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 while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major ... Read more
'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it 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 while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846273766
SKU
V9781846273766
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About Herta Muller
Born in Romania in 1953, HERTA MÜLLER lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Securitate. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the European Literature Prize, she also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel, ... Read more
Reviews for The Appointment
A brooding, fog-shrouded allegory of life under the long oppression of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
New York Times
Nobody since Arthur Koestler in the 1940s has written more intelligently or with such subtle precision about life under totalitarianism ... Müller has an exceptionally rare talent - to turn the terrifying, the distorted and the hideously ugly into ... Read more
New York Times
Nobody since Arthur Koestler in the 1940s has written more intelligently or with such subtle precision about life under totalitarianism ... Müller has an exceptionally rare talent - to turn the terrifying, the distorted and the hideously ugly into ... Read more