"A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity." —The Guardian * "Transgressive...Incendiary." —The New Yorker * "A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy." —The New York Times...

With The Appointment, her audacious debut novel, Katharina Volckmer challenges our notions of what is fluid and what is fixed and injects a dose of Bernhardian snark into contemporary British fiction. von Volckmer, Katharina

"Darkly funny." ?The Guardian * "Transgressive...incendiary." ?The New Yorker * "A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy." ?The New York Times Book Review * "Sexy, hilarious, and...