The appointment book herta muller biography

THE APPOINTMENT

By Herta Muller
New York: Harbrace Paperbound Library,
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95 poems, pages not numbered

Comments by Bob Corbett
June

�I�ve been summoned.

Thursday, at ten sharp.�

Thus opens this eerie novel, narrated by an unnamed woman. Presumably she had been a fairly normal person until these interrogations began, but increasingly in the novel the pressure the interrogations bring the �suspect,� if that�s what she is, to the very breaking point, if not over the top.

Seemingly the time is late in the reign of Nicolae Ceausescu who was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from The woman narrator had been a worker in a garment factory. However, in sort of desperation she began to hiding notes in the clothing she was making that was being sent to Italy.

The appointment book herta muller biography

�Marry me,� read the notes and gave contact information for her. She is discovered and turned in and now is somehow suspect, but she�s not sure of what. Nonetheless, she is called now and again, on