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It is a profound illustration of a totalitarian state which comes to inhabit every aspect of life; to the extent that everyone, event the strongest, must either bend to the oppressors or resist them and perish.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896465015157,"sku":"9781803513478","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803513478_3154a312-77f0-4762-b2d4-1c6e13be8a11.jpg?v=1786027319"},{"product_id":"9781803513485","title":"The Appointment","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eI've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.\u003c\/i\u003e' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 'Marry me', the notes say, with her name and address. Anything to get out of the country.As she rides the tram to her interrogation, her thoughts stray to her friend Lilli, shot while trying to flee to Hungary; to her grandparents, deported after her first husband informed on them; to Major Albu, her interrogator, who begins each session with a wet kiss on her fingers; and to Paul, her lover and the one person she can trust. In her distraction, she misses her stop and finds herself on an unfamiliar street.And what she discovers there suddenly puts her fear of the appointment into chilling perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBone-spare and intense, \u003ci\u003eThe Appointment\u003c\/i\u003e is a pitiless rendering of the terrors of a crushing regime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55896510693749,"sku":"9781803513485","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803513485_68f2fabe-aa61-44d9-b790-60566ceff882.jpg?v=1786027320"},{"product_id":"9781781255278","title":"The Passport","description":"From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our country. And just as the mother in the house in which we live is our mother, so Comrade Elena Ceausescu is the mother of our country. Comrade Nicolae Ceausescu is the father of our children. All the children love comrade Nicolae and comrade Elena, because they are their parents.'The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Müller describes with poetic attention the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, lyrical language, Herta Müller captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people.This edition is translated by Martin Chalmers, with a new foreword by Paul Bailey.Also by Herta Müller: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, and The Hunger Angel.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304560505205,"sku":"9781781255278","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781255278_625f3618-3d46-4bd1-813d-0fc08c41b152.jpg?v=1786025383"},{"product_id":"9781846274770","title":"The Fox Was Ever the Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eRomania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. 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Adina and her friends struggle to keep living in a world permeated with fear, where even the eyes of a cat seem complicit with the watchful eye of the state, and where it's hard to tell the victim apart from the perpetrator.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308224196981,"sku":"9781846274770","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846274770_8492b63a-58e0-4f04-ad59-02659d35a184.jpg?v=1786029391"},{"product_id":"9781846273766","title":"The Appointment","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eI've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.\u003c\/i\u003e' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. 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