The Appointment, (Paperback)

from voz

I enjoyed this experience so much I am going to hunt down others by Herta Muller. In some ways this reads like prose poems, there are all sorts of choatic moments contrasted with brooding angst. Written as a stream of consciousness internal monologue on a ninely minute tram ride. So it's a bleak ...

from bobbieharv

Very well-written, very strange and forboding in a Kafkaesque way. She's being interrogated by a powerful person in the government; on her way to her appointment we find out many details of her life, meticulously observed; but we never find out what happens to her, which of course is deliberate. ...

from pgmcc

The Appointment is a stream of consciousness novel. My experience of such novels has not been good, but I'm glad to say Herta Muller's novel was fascinating and well paced. It is the thoughts of a woman on her way to an interrogation. The novel opens with the words, "I've been summonsed." There i...

from kvrfan

Set in Ceausescu's totalitarian Romania, this is essentially the story of how a soulless society saps the individual souls of the people within it. I found myself absorbed, realizing that only through fiction--the relating of one woman's musings--can the deepest dimensions of a life under oppress...

from RebaRelishesReading

[The Appointment] was one of the works taken into consideration when [[Herta Muller]] was given the Nobel Prize in 2009. Muller was born in Romania in 1953 and emigrated to Germany in 1987. Her work, including [The Appointment] deals with life in Romania under communist rule. In many ways this bo...