"Hilbig's was among the most significant prose and poetry written not just in the GDR but in all of postwar Germany–East or West." – Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers
"Whenever I read Hilbig's books . . . I am profoundly shaken. this language practically slices me open." – Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar
"Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature" – László Krasznahorkai, recipient of the 2015 International Man Booker Prize and author of Satantango and Seiobo There Below
"Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." – The New York Times
"Out of the ugliness of history and the wasted landscape of his home, he has created stories of disconsolate beauty." – The Wall Street Journal
"[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany." – Los Angeles Review of Books
"Hilbig's prose is vivid and poetic." – Publishers Weekly