"This book's unvarnished quality is the source of its wrecking cumulative power. Barthes's ironic intellect, apparent everywhere in his many books, is wrapped here around his sore and nakedly beating heart."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now…is regarded as one of the most important writers in German.” —Richard Locke, The New York Times

"Like Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Quiet Girl spins a labyrinthine plot, sometimes looping into the past to fill in context as scenes unfold. This time around, though, Mr. Høeg adds a theological theme. In The Quiet Girl, Krone wants nothing less than to hear the sound of God. The novel teems with flashbacks, philosophical asides, ironical observations, theological musing, gripping scenes and events (the setting is again Denmark), and a sort of magic realism that elevates to celestial heights the uncanny human capacity to hear . . . [The Quiet Girl] takes it serious themes seriously, as many novels do not, and, with its busy plot, it never loses a thriller's sense of go."—Diane Scharper, The Wall Street Journal

"Powerful , , , Muller achieves something beautiful. She has wrested poetry from one woman's desire to remain human in an inhuman system."—Newsday

This National Book Award finalist and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice is an enthralling, poetic adventure set in post-apocalyptic Siberia.