by Herta Müller · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864247425
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«La convocation» is Herta Müller's novel, published by Métaillé in 2009, in French.
A female narrator is summoned by the Securitate after hiding an SOS in the lining of a luxury dress she sews in a factory. The story follows her struggle against anguish and humiliation on the way to the interrogation. Set in Ceaușescu's Romania, it portrays the control and paranoia of the dictatorship.
The cover of this French edition indicates the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Herta Müller, a Romanian-German author.
For readers interested in contemporary European literature and in the experience of repression under the dictatorships of the twentieth century.
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
