The Appointment - Tapa blanda

A brooding, fog-shrouded allegory of life under the long oppression of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. "The New York Times" A slim, masterfully written tale. "Newsweek" A taut and brilliant book. "Chicago Tribune" Powerful...Muller achieves something beautiful. She has wrested poetry from one woman's desire to remain human in an inhuman system. "Newsday" Muller scatters narrative bombshells across a field of dreams. "San Francisco Chronicle" With terse poetry, Muller brings to life a profoundly moving world...the lyrical beauty of the prose and its unflinching moral and emotional honesty carry the reader. "Bookforum""

"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp". Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me" the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under terror. In her distraction, she misses her stop, and alone on an unfamiliar street, Lilli discovers something far worse than anything she had feared.