The Appointment | Agenda Bookshop Skip to content
LAST CHANCE! Order items marked '10-20 working days' TODAY to get them in time for Christmas!
LAST CHANCE! Order items marked '10-20 working days' TODAY to get them in time for Christmas!
A01=Herta Muller
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Herta Muller
automatic-update
B06=Michael Hulse
B06=Philip Boehm
Category1=Fiction
Category=FA
Category=FYT
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
softlaunch

The Appointment

English

By (author): Herta Muller

Translated by: Michael Hulse, Philip Boehm

'I've been summoned, Thursday, 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 Lilli, 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.And what she discovers there suddenly puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime. See more
Current price €14.44
Original price €16.99
Save 15%
A01=Herta MullerAge Group_UncategorizedAuthor_Herta Mullerautomatic-updateB06=Michael HulseB06=Philip BoehmCategory1=FictionCategory=FACategory=FYTCOP=United KingdomDelivery_Delivery within 10-20 working daysLanguage_EnglishPA=AvailablePrice_€10 to €20PS=Activesoftlaunch
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Product Details
  • Weight: 158g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jul 2011
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781846273766

About Herta Muller

Born in Romania in 1953 HERTA MÜLLER lost her job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu's Securitate. She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in Berlin. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the European Literature Prize she also won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel The Land of Green Plums.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue we'll assume that you are understand this. Learn more
Accept