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Book SynopsisAlthough a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.
Trade Review"A pure poetic talent: everything is full of mystery." -- Hermann Hesse
"To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it." -- Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann
"Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius." -- Robert Musil
"Her voice is something holy." -- Thomas Mann
"A triumphant translation." -- Publishers Weekly
"Its language feels timeless—rich and cavernous and haunted." -- Kevin Nguyen - Grantland
"Ullmann delicately balances each of her characters’ emotions on a pinpoint, presenting both the beauty and fragility of every momentary feeling." -- Jan Anspach - Words Without Borders
"It’s as if Ullmann takes biblical wisdom literature, strips it of all moral judgment, and then spins it with rotating moments of natural bliss and existential fear." -- Jonathan Sturgeon - Flavorwire
"Ullmann is a one-off, an original, a really deeply peculiar writer." -- Michael Hofmann - NYRB
