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Picador
September 2002
On Sale: September 7, 2002
224 pages
ISBN: 0312420544
EAN: 9780312420543
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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 Müller 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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