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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 080506012X
ISBN-13: 9780805060126
Sep 2001
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
214 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English |
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Synopsis
2009 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Herta Müller crafts another affective portrait of Romanian citizens struggling to breathe under the suffocating regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. An unnamed young woman is fired from her job at a factory after she refuses the sexual advances of one of her superiors. Even worse, the lies spread by her accuser draw the ominous attention of local party official Major Albu, who subjects her to a series of painful and humiliating interrogation sessions. The novel comprises her poignant reflections on her plight and her memories of life under the totalitarian government, as she dutifully makes her way by tram to yet another "appointment.", A young woman in Romania who works in a clothing factory during the Ceausescu regime angers her boss by rejecting him sexually. In revenge, he makes up stories about her that not only get her fired but draw the attention of Major Albu, who interrogates her regularly in painful and humiliating sessions. Her observations on her plight and on life in Romania under totalitarianism comprise the bulk of this novel, which is narrated as she makes her way by tram to yet another interrogation.
| Size | | Length: | 214 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[A] grim portrait of totalitarian life's squalor and pain....Sensitive, observant, unrelenting--and compelling."
Kirkus Reviews (07/15/2001)
"...THE APPOINTMENT is a searing report from the heart of Eastern Europe before the fall of communism....The lyrical beauty of the prose and its unflinching moral and emotional honesty carry the reader more surely than the plot--whatever plot there is. The outcome of all those frightening meetings remains uncertain, and most likely that's the author's point."
Bookforum - Catherine Texier
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