“An intelligent, intriguing and atmospheric novel worthy of its inspiration. It is admirably served by Antonia Lloyd-Jones' nuanced and readable translation.” – The Independent

“Book lovers queue here.” – Scotland on Sunday

 

Breslau 1933: the mutilated bodies of a young woman and her ladies’ maid are found dead on a train. Scorpions writhe in their slashed stomach – a horrifying image that becomes crucial to the investigation. Inspector Eberhard Mock is called in to deal with the case…

Death In Breslau is a stylish, intelligent and original addition to the canon – Financial Times

 

Few are [Lem's] peers in poetic expression, in word play, and in imaginative and sophisticated sympathy.
- Kurt Vonnegut

[Lem was] a giant of mid-20th-century science fiction, in a league with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick.
- The New York Times

 

Chaotic and brilliantly idiosyncratic . . . This thoroughly unique debut is destined to become a cult classic. - Library Journal

 

A story of marvelous skill and poignancy. Maillard is a national treasure. - Kirkus Reviews

 

 

 

Pilch masterfully plays with the tradition of the drunkard novel, demonstrating just how close the alcoholic’s self-fashioning is to the writer’s self-narration. In this way, Pilch’s novel constitutes an act of belief in literature.... The book’s wonderful, delirious and baroque style imparts the experience of dependence, exclusion, and loneliness, as well as the overcoming of loneliness through love. – Maria Janion, head of the jury for the 2001 NIKE Literary Award

 

 

Captures the milieu of those marginalized by the transition from communism to a free-market. I caught a flavor of Hamsun, Sartre, Genet and Kafka in Stasiuk’s scalpel-like but evocative writing – Irvine Welsch, The New York Times For all its street-smart pace and grit, “Nine” is studded with hauntingly graceful … passages (Johnston's translation reads beautifully) – Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

 

Stasiuk, exploring a region that so many have assumed to be irresistibly converging with the West, has mapped what Freud might have called its ‘genetic memory.’ - Benjamin Moser, Harper’s Magazine

 

A stunning addition to the literature of surrealism... – Whitney Chadwick, author of Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement A prose poem in chapters, of haunting beauty… And the collages are something else: think Ernst and think past him. – Prof. Mary Ann Caws, CUNY Graduate Center, author of many books on Surrealism

 

Tulli’s perfect prose is a labyrinth of inexhaustible meanings…. in which there circulate metaphors of emptiness and want, phantoms of unfulfilled emotions. - Marek Zaleski, Gazeta Wyborcza

 

“Just when you fear fiction may have no more turns left to take, along comes Magdalena Tulli. Picking up on the experiments of Oulipo and Robbe-Grillet, she leads us into a dazzling maze out of which we emerge with our wonder and our delight retooled.” - Askold Melnyczuk

 

The originality of Tulli's writing is not lessened by representing a family tree that includes Michaud, Kafka, Calvino, and Saramago. – W.S. Merwin