"In this book, we do not smell the sultry perfume of the golden twenties. Here, the musty odor of moldy apartments, bad food, cheap alcohol, and unventilated toilets seeps out of the sides. But the book is not dull social criticism–the characters are too vital, the story too exciting. And Székely, the accomplished screenwriter, has arranged his scenes far too cleverly." –Joachim Kronsbein,
Der Spiegel "A truly great novel that brings everything together: narrative force, social history, wit, anger, grief, love and idealism." –Angela Wittmann,
Brigitte