The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times... This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative
- Neel Mukherjee,
Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique
- Rachel Seiffert,
One of Europe's most highly regarded writers, perpetually striving to create an artistic prism through which to interpret history's arc...
- Catherine Taylor, Financial Times
The strength of this collection is in how it upends many of our perceptions of life in the GDR and what the fall of the Berlin Wall means to those who experienced it
New European
A wonderfully gripping story that ventures fearlessly into some pretty dark family secrets to tell the story of a Europe you won't find in conventional history books
New European