Herta Muller The Appointment. Trans...

Herta Muller The Appointment. Translated through Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm novel York: Picador USA, 2001. 224 pp $23 ISBN 0-312-42054-4
The history of the last decades in Central and Eastern Europe abounds in situations in regard to which all epithets and theoretical considerations be deprived of meaning. A man's effort to match up to these situations decides his fate. The solution each accepts differs according to those impalpable factors which constitute his individuality. (The Captive Mind)
This observation, made by way of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz in his portrait of