{"product_id":"the-appointment-a-novel-9780805060126","title":"The Appointment: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize  a fierce novel about a young Romanian womans discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life  \"Ive been summoned. Thursday  ten sharp.\" Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescus totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time  she believes  will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of mens 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 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  her one source of trust  despite his constant drunkenness. In her distraction  she misses her stop to find herself on an unfamiliar street. And what she discovers there makes her fear of the appointment pale by comparison.  Herta Mller pitilessly renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing regime. Bone-spare and intense  The Appointment confirms her standing as one of Europes greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646876868661,"sku":"ByrdShop_080506012X","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805060126.jpg?v=1781679494","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-appointment-a-novel-9780805060126","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}