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A review by f3ttt
The Appointment by Herta Müller
5.0
The Appointment is a very sad book that tells the truth about just how horrible it is to live in a country where you can be interrogated day after day with no real purpose. Few understand just how insidious it is to have to voluntarily return to interrogation because they fear something even worse. Fewer still understand how interrogation doesn't have to do with beating a person or using hot irons, it is the neverending grinding of a human soul into madness.
The book is beautifully written and captures many of the means which the oppressed seek out to resist tyranny, infidelity, incest, snitching, domination of other poor souls, rebellion and drunkenness. I'm left sad after reading it and also suspicious of everyone I see. She's not a Nobel Laureate for nothing.
The book is beautifully written and captures many of the means which the oppressed seek out to resist tyranny, infidelity, incest, snitching, domination of other poor souls, rebellion and drunkenness. I'm left sad after reading it and also suspicious of everyone I see. She's not a Nobel Laureate for nothing.