Foreign Rights

Wolfgang Herrndorf

On this Side of the Van-Allen Belt

Not so much realistic as representational, simultaneously crystal-clear and mysterious, comical and uncanny, rousing and repulsive-all of these are qualities that apply to the work of Wolfgang Herrndorf, whose carefully calibrated stories are in a class of their own. He combines the sort of craftsmanship we associate with American writers with a Germanic imaginativeness and romantic wit. This short long book is a page-turner from start to finish.
Gustav Seibt