‘One of those rare novels that can move you existentially, and change you.’ SWR‘This book about a village’s dead proves that subtle literary quality and bestseller success do not have to be mutually exclusive.’ Die Zeit‘The whole thing is so wonderfully crafted . . . that you literally don’t want to stop reading, that you’re sad to come to the end . . . What he has mastered like few other authors in German literary history is to give all his characters a profound dignity.’ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung