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The Appointment

The Appointment

The Appointment is a novel by German author Herta Müller. The novel was originally published in German in 1997 and later in English by Metropolitan Books and Picador, a Macmillan imprint, in 2001. The novel was one of several for which Müller was known when she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. The Appointment portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police. She is accused of sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy asking that the recipient marry her to help her get out of the country.


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“The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.”

Herta Müller book The Appointment

Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)

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