The Appointment. Translated by Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm

The hardships and humiliations of Communist   Romania are on display in this taut novel by the winner of the European Literature Prize (Müller, author of the well-received Land of Green Plums, emigrated to Berlin after being persecuted by the Romanian secret police). The narrator, an unnamed young dress-factory   worker of the post-WWII generation, […]