"A writer whose work [belongs] on the high shelf alongside that of Kafka, Borges and Proust."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Far outdoing even the best of these pieces are three set in Corsica. Perhaps intended as part of a new work of imagination, they compel a startled delight, and they compel painful regret-outrage even-that Sebald is gone and unable to continue."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Brilliant . . . rollicking, sorrowful . . . [a] wonderfully mellifluous translation."
-The Boston Globe