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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10080506012X
ISBN-139780805060126
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038722401
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleAppointment : a Novel
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicGeneral, Literary
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorHerta Müller
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.1 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-031246
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal833/.914
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisFrom the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, 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.
LC Classification NumberPT2673.U29234H4813
