'Hotschnig's stories have the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams… It is, though, very refreshing to be confronted by stories which so firmly refuse to yield to conventional interpretation.' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian 'Hotschnig's prose dramatizes the voice of conscience and the psychological mechanisms we use to face reality or, just as often, to avoid it.' World Literature Today 'Literary precision that has become rare in today's gossipy, discursive fiction.' Neue Zuricher Zeitung 'He is one of the best writers of his generation.' – Suddeutsche Zeitung?'Not since Julio Cortazar's game of Hopscotch… has an author so daringly undertaken to challenge the reader.' Amanda Hopkinson, The Independent 'Hotschnig's stories have the weird, creepy and ambiguous...