Jenny Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us--off-centre, as one travels into a vortex--into the most haunted and haunting territory. This is a novel of profound clarity and precise grief.--Anne Michaels, Author of Fugitive Pieces

Love, death and passion, from the Weimar Republic to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Wonderful German prose.-- "Playboy"

Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene.-- "Cosmopolitan"

Erpenbeck will get under your skin.-- "Washington Post Book World"

Bernofsky's translation vividly captures the rhythm of Erpenbeck's original and allows us to experience this stunning parable of change and brevity in all its beauty and wonder.-- "Jewish Book World"

Erpenbeck's voice is fresh and independent and very convincing.--Frederike Knabe "Mostly Fiction"

Visitation adds to her compact scenarios something intangible and enormous, which works on them from outside their modest frames with a force eroding human history and its claims to establish durable meaning.-- "The Nation"