"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
"The Tidings of the Trees mulls the legacy, ramifications, and enduring trauma of consequential and devastating political history. Through his tormented protagonist, Hilbig . . . strives to make sense of the haunting aftereffects of his nation's dark history." – Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books
"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
