The Appointment (Paperback)

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life
"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker during Ceausescu'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 Romania.
As each tram stop brings the young woman closer to the appointment, her thoughts stray to her father and his infidelities; to her friend Lilli, shot trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her own husband informed on them; and to Paul, her lover, her one source of trust despite his drunkenness. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the interrogation pale by comparison.
Bone-spare and intense, "The Appointment" powerfully renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime and its corrosive effects on family and friendship, sex and love.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	November 2010
Authors:	Herta Muller
Translators:	Michael Hulse • Philip Boehm
Dimensions:	213 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-65537-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-312-65537-1
Barcode:	9780312655372

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