The Fifth Year

Reviews

"The mysteries only deepen the further you get in Marlen Haushofer’s fiction, which takes on domestic repression in its many guises." — Peter C. Baker, The New York Times

"The human capacity to simply keep going lies at the heart of Haushofer’s understanding of the world. What is momentous and beautiful about life, she suggests, is that there is hardly anything we can’t stand; that is its horror, too.”" — B.D. McClay, The Wall Street Journal

"A window into the singularity of consciousness." — Janique Vigier, Bookforum

"Haushofer’s sentences are simple and concise, and full of careful thought.The ideas she expresses are so important that you wonder how you havemanaged to get by without them." — Missouri Williams, The Nation

"An extraordinarily interesting writer, always underappreciated." — Elfriede Jelinek