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A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative . . . Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal -- Eileen Battersby * Financial Times * Roland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners . . . This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. -- Mika Provata-Carlone * Bookanista * A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. -- John Boyne (author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS) * Irish Times * A looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf 's path . . . delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch's translation. -- Julian Evans * Daily Telegraph (*****) * As cool and incisive as its title suggests -- Dirk Knipphalz * TAZ * A moving book that delicately and expertly captures a prevailing atmosphere - of disorientation and bleakness in society, and of unexpressed feelings -- Carsten Hueck * Deutschland Radiokultur * A powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both gripping and unsettling -- Bjoern Hayer * Spiegel * The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. * Schimmelpfennig's world is uncomfortable and cold; but in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity -- Martin Halter * Berliner Zeitung *

A magnificent achievement, a novel of terrific originality - New European A vivid ensemble of nuanced characters emerge as their daily lives coincide through a cleverly multi-layered, interconnected narrative . . . Schimmlpfennig rarely says too much in a brilliantly kaleidoscopic morality tale that suggests a great deal - Financial Times A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace. - Irish Times A looping, episodic, beguiling contemporary fable about a set of dysfunctional, seemingly disconnected characters whose fates are spun together along the mysterious wolf 's path . . . delivered crisply in Jamie Bulloch's translation. - Daily Telegraph (*****) The exhilarating narrative is wonderfully concise, and the imagery is intensely cinematic. - Guardian. Schimmelpfennig's world is uncomfortable and cold; but in the hearts of his characters glow the flames of longing, passion and solidarity - Berliner Zeitung Roland Schimmelpfennig shockingly reverses readerly expectations and conjures up for us a superbly dark comedy of manners . . . This combined quality of stage economy and theatricality accentuates what is essentially a particularly unflinching, penetrating gaze into the state of our society. - Bookanista A powerful novel of extraordinary momentum and contemporaneity - its looping narrative is both gripping and unsettling - Spiegel

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Roland Schimmelpfennig, born in 1967, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright. He began his career as a journalist before studying to be a theatre director, and his plays have now been performed in more than forty countries. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schuler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre. One Clear, Ice-cold January Morning at the Beginning of the 21st Century is his first novel, shortlisted for the Leipzig Bookfair Prize in 2016. His play Winter Solstice is on tour across the U.K. in 2018. He lives in Berlin.

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