Appointment A Novel

Name: Appointment A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312655372

ISBN-10: 0312655371

ISBN-13: 9780312655372

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Authors: Herta Muller, Michael Hulse, Philip Boehm

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From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker during Ceausescu'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 Romania. As each tram stop brings the young woman closer to the appointment, her thoughts stray to her father and his infidelities; to her friend…

Book details

List price: $23.50
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 11/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.57" wide x 8.19" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Herta Muller was born in Timis, Romania in 1953. A vocal memeber of the German minority, she was forced to leave the country in 1987. In that year, she went to west Berlin where she now lives. She was recently awarded the prestigious Ricarda-Huch Prize. Her books have been translated into all European languages - this edition of The Passport is the first publication of Herta Muller in English.

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