Da mi je danas bilo ne susresti sebe

Apart from envious and treacherous colleagues in the clothing factory where she works, the main character is also tormented by the state's repressive apparatus, which summons her for questioning. The reason for this invitation is her desire to travel to one of the countries to which the factory exports clothes. In order to achieve this, she puts notes in the pockets of men's suits in which she is looking for a groom. The affair in the factory develops to a huge scale, even the main character is accused of prostitution and high treason...

"The first week after the slips, because I was called to the hearing for three days in a row, I couldn't close my eyes at night. My nerves became like a thin wire. The force of gravity that holds the flesh has disappeared, all that remains is tense skin and air in my bones. I'm in the city had to be careful not to run away on its own like a breath in the cold..."

In her works, the Romanian writer Herta Müller talks about aspects of her own life during the most primitive totalitarianism in Romania and about the feeling of alienation and lack of roots in the new soil that permeates all her characters of defectors and dissidents in exile. After the book spoke publicly against the dictatorship in Romania at the Frankfurt Fair, it was banned from further publication. After returning to her homeland, her life became more and more difficult, and in 1987 she moved to the west. Since then he lives in Berlin.