Description
Although a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.
Reviews
"A pure poetic talent: everything is full of mystery." — Hermann Hesse
"To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it." — Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann
"Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius." — Robert Musil
"Her voice is something holy." — Thomas Mann
"A triumphant translation." — Publishers Weekly
"Its language feels timeless—rich and cavernous and haunted." — Kevin Nguyen, Grantland
"Ullmann delicately balances each of her characters’ emotions on a pinpoint, presenting both the beauty and fragility of every momentary feeling." — Jan Anspach, Words Without Borders
"It’s as if Ullmann takes biblical wisdom literature, strips it of all moral judgment, and then spins it with rotating moments of natural bliss and existential fear." — Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire
"Ullmann is a one-off, an original, a really deeply peculiar writer." — Michael Hofmann, NYRB