Appointment, Paperback/Herta Muller

The paperback edition of the fierce and finely-wrought novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life. From the Nobel Prize winning author of The Land Of Green Plums, it's 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