"Bukowski meets Withnail on schnapps. As beautiful a mess as the characters he wrote, Jörg Fauser's trawl through the anarchist squats of the 70s lays bare the seeds of Germany's new cool."—DBC Pierre
"What you are about to read is, in many ways, like nothing else you will have read before. To foist a genre on it, it's a picaresque, but what a crazed, leaping, unmoored and hilarious voyage it is . . . [a] crazed cut-up collage of wanderings and wishes and the inevitable destruction of dreams. Tremendous."—Niall Griffiths
"Sad, funny, cynical and deeply authentic, it's the best novel of the period I've ever read."—Barry Miles
"Bukowski meets Withnail on schnapps. As beautiful a mess as the characters he wrote, Jörg Fauser's trawl through the anarchist squats of the 70s lays bare the seeds of Germany's new cool."DBC Pierre
"What you are about to read is, in many ways, like nothing else you will have read before. To foist a genre on it, it's a picaresque, but what a crazed, leaping, unmoored and hilarious voyage it is . . . [a] crazed cut-up collage of wanderings and wishes and the inevitable destruction of dreams. Tremendous."Niall Griffiths
"Sad, funny, cynical and deeply authentic, it's the best novel of the period I've ever read."Barry Miles