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The Appointment

A Novel

The Appointment( )
Author: Müller, Herta
Translator: Hulse, Michael
Boehm, Philip
ISBN:978-0-8050-6012-6
Publication Date:Sep 2001
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company
Imprint:Metropolitan Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.00
Book Description:

From 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,"...
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Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.86 x 8.5 x 0.865 Inches
Book Weight:0.755 Pounds
Author Biography
Müller, Herta (Author)
Born in Romania in 1953, Herta Müller lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Secret Police. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the European Literature Prize, she has also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her previous novel, The Land of Green Plums.

Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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