“One couldn’t imagine anything more diverting than a second novel with this team in the lead roles.”
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Der Spiegel
“The elegant English-language debut from Austrian writer Kappacher explores mortality, change, and the creative life via an impressionistic depiction of real-life author and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal … Kappacher captures the protagonist’s fear that his capacity to create, like the world he loved, is lost. It’s a moving portrait.”
Publishers Weekly