Appointment, paperback/herta muller

The paperback edition of the fierce and finely-wrought novel about a young Romanian womans discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.

From the Nobel Prize winning author of The Land Of Green Plums, its a view of state repression based on her own story.

A brooding, fog-shrouded allegory of life under the long oppression of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.

New York Times.