The Appointment
by Herta Müller | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1846272904 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1846272904 Global Overview for this book
Registered by hippolein of Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on 3/5/2015
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Portobello paperback 2010
214 pages
Back Cover:
"I've been summoned. Thursday, at 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 Lili, shot while 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 and the one person she can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street. What she discovers there puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective.
Bone-spare, intense and drawing on the author's own experiences, The Appointment is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.
214 pages
Back Cover:
"I've been summoned. Thursday, at 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 Lili, shot while 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 and the one person she can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street. What she discovers there puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective.
Bone-spare, intense and drawing on the author's own experiences, The Appointment is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.
Journal Entry 2 by hippolein at OBCZ Columbus in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, March 6, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (3/6/2015 UTC) at OBCZ Columbus in Helsinki, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
The book will be released in the newly started OBCZ in the shopping mall Columbus in Vuosaari.
Took from OBCZ Columbus. Thanks for the book hippolein! Partly took this because Herta Müller is a Nobel Prize winner.
Not enough time to read, this book continues it's journey.
Journal Entry 5 by TiiMa at Järvenpään kirjasto in Järvenpää, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Released 6 yrs ago (1/17/2018 UTC) at Järvenpään kirjasto in Järvenpää, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland
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Releasing to the lobby's bookshelf.
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