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Book SynopsisA contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's most successful playwrightTrade ReviewSchimmelpfennig's world is uncomfortable and cold; but
in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity -- Martin Halter * Berliner Zeitung *
The
exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is
intensely cinematic. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. *
Mesmerizing . . . The narrative is wonderfully spare, rendered in clear, simple sentences . . .
A satisfying and memorable story -- Alannah Hopkin * Irish Examiner *
A powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both
gripping and unsettling * Spiegel *
A moving book that delicately and expertly captures a prevailing atmosphere - of disorientation and bleakness in society, and of unexpressed feelings * Deutschland Radiokultur *
As
cool and incisive as its title suggests * TAZ *
A looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf 's path . . .
delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch's translation. * Daily Telegraph (*****) *
A
highly original and often
hypnotic work . . .
exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. * Irish Times *
Roland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners . . . This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially
a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. * Bookanista *
A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through
a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative . . . Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in
a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal * Financial Times *
A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality * New European *
