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Book SynopsisA beautifully observed novel about how individual acts of bravery can change the course of history.Trade ReviewThis is a beautiful book, a masterpiece of brevity and depth. It's rinsed in unspoken despair but what its characters never lose, despite their agonies, despite their trauma, is hope . . . Translated beautifully from the German by Jamie Bulloch, could be his best work yet . . . -- Charlie Connelly * New European *
This tense novella builds to a final reckoning. Which facet of the human character will triumph
- bravery, evil, or a just a sad, deadening apathy?
-- Antonia Senior * The Times *
Lean, incredibly vivid sentences ... the tension never lets up * Die Welt *
His novels unleash a force that is rarely felt in contemporary German-language literature * Die Presse *
Austria's answer to David Lynch * 3sat Kulturzeit *
His work conveys a heightened awareness of the fragility of what keeps our innermost souls in check * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *
Hochgatterer's great art is to transform psychological confusion into a language of extreme clarity . . . This Austrian author writes with a sparseness that builds to a powerful crescendo before the dramatic finale. * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *
The final days have been reported, filmed, sung and documented a hundred times, but rarely told as vividly as in Paulus Hochgatterer's new book . . . he narrates the last act of a drama in which life and future plans were reshuffled. This could be dismissed as hubris, were Hochgatterer not such a good writer. * Profil *
Paulus Hochgatterer writes about life and the chasms that swallow you when you take the wrong path * WDR *
Explores the huge difficulty and danger inherent in doing the right thing at the time of Nazi occupation . . . this is a tiny book, but it contains more unbearable tension than most epic sagas can muster -- Nic Bottomley * Bath Life *
