"Work and nature wrestle everywhere in these stories...the simplest turns of phrase delight"
–Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Wolfgang Hilbig
"Comic and terrifying and profound."
–Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021)
"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 The Netanyahus
"-Evokes the luminous prose of W.G. Sebald." –The New York Times "[Hilbig writes as] Edgar Allan Poe could have written if he had been born in Communist East Germany."
–Los Angeles Review of Books "Wolfgang Hilbig is an artist of immense stature."
–László Krasznahorkai, author of Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming and Satantango "[Hilbig] could very well be the writer for our time."
–Boston Review "Whenever I read Hilbig's books...I am profoundly shaken. This language practically slices me open."
–Clemens Meyer, author of Bricks and Mortar