Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Müller captures the stream of consciousness of a woman summoned for questioning under the regime of Ceausescu. Both her recollections of what brought her to this point and the passing scenes along her mundane bus ride stunningly emerges the reader into the details of life in a totalitarian regime from insect infestations and shabby construction to the alert sense of surroundings to the insecurity of knowing if an accident is an accident. The final page is haunting.