"H.G. Adler's works . . . survive as a magnificent achievement of courage, art, and the stubborn will to survive."–Peter Demetz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature, Yale University
"A masterpiece . . . For me, Adler has restored hope to modern literature."–Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"As important a find as Irène Némirovsky's
Suite Française, and as well translated into English, it is indeed, as Veza Canetti wrote to the author in 1962, 'too beautiful for words and too sad.' "–Sander L. Gilman, author of
Jurek
Becker: A Life in Five Worlds
"A tribute to the survival of art and a poignant teaching in the art of survival. I tend to shy away from Holocaust fiction, but this book helps redeem an all-but-impossible genre."–
Harold Bloom
