"A remarkable mixture of affection, gentle humor, compassion, light irony, bitterness, and cold, angry indignation." –The Sacramento Bee
"Can be read for sheer pleasure. Hesse's peculiarly supple lyricism, his brittle irony, and his stunning descriptions of nature are marvelously carried over into the English." –
The Saturday Review "[A] Black Forest
Catcher in the Rye, a work infused with that sense of homesickness that Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., quite rightly said was so prominent in Hesse's novels." –
The National Observer