'A magical feat of imagination' Suddeutsche Zeitung
'A large small book, in barely two hundred pages an artfully created universe' Munich Abendzeitung
'This season's discovery: Iris Wolff's enchantingly beautiful family novel' Der Tagesspiegel
'This is great, great storytelling art' Deutschland radio
'Extremely original narrative style'; 'a complete success' Literaturkritik.de
'No one else has made history float as beautifully as this' Stefan Kister, Stuttgarter Zeitung
'Blurrred is quiet, reserved and yet highly intensive and extensive ... Iris Wolff is so embedded in the minds of nearly all her characters that they swiftly become memorable.' Gerrit Bartels, Tagesspiegel
'A novel that is very diverse, poetic, political, psychologically astute and joyful' Ann-Dore Krohn, Literary Colloquium Berlin
'To journey with her, to get involved in this novel and its wonderful prose, to immerse yourself in it - what a great and very touching experience.'Denis Scheck, Das Erste druckfrisch
'"A story can be told so often and so vividly that you think you remember it yourself." This is precisely what comes to pass in BLURRED. The last chapter, Prestigio, is named for the crescendo of a magic show. A perfect fit.' Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
'A hauntingly delicate narrative in language which creates the lightest of atmospheres, always with a faint undertone of melancholy.' Pasc Eisenack, Nurnberger Zeitung
Ultimately everything comes together to make a completely wonderful book, a magnficent and notably idiosyncratic novel bedded in the nostalgically beautiful landscape of the Banat ....
A powerful story, a polyphonic concert.' Wolfgang Wiedenhoefer, Frisch vom Stapel
'Iris Wolff's quiet narrative flow enchants. The world of this novel is fully revealed in the language of an author who finely weaves thematic threads and connections through the whole text' Carsten Hueck, Ex Libris
'Beautiful, clear images, uniting tough and gentle, depict lives shaped by political upheavals, personal tragedies and misdeeds, by individual courage, self-will, a hunger for life and a deep attachment to the soil.' Franziska Hirsbrunner, Swiss Radio and Television SRF
'Here, strong characters move on quiet feet; suffering and blows of fate are seen as passing phenomena rather than focal points, and the tension places the accents where you least expect them ... Wolff's literature is poetic, rather than constructive; life itself does not follow dramaturgy.'
Irina Kilimnik, Die Presse
'The great quality she possesses is perhaps what Peter Handke (referring to Hermann Lenz) once called poetic history lessons. 'Iris Wolff has written another great novel.' Rainer Moritz, Norddeutscher Radio
'Tthrough language alone, she transports us into a realm that lies beyond words. There is no escaping this magic.' Stefan Kister, Stuttgarter Zeitung
'Iris Wolff has at her disposal an incredibly sophisticated psychological tool - an instrument she uses to draw her figures. It feels like watercolour, but afterwards you really feel wow - what a huge landscape has been drawn here.' Denis Scheck, WDR Westdeutscher Radio
'Blurred is certainly one of the most beautiful, thrilling and fine novels of this summer's book season, indeed of this year.' Roland Freisitzer, Sandammeer
'It is ... the invisible threads connecting people which make this book so special.'
Gabriele Weingartner, Die Rheinpfalz
'A stroke of luck for German language literature' Gerard Otremba, Sounds and Books
'Iris Wolff's gift for language has produced a book that arises as much from her educational grounding as from her German-Romanian language citizenship, creating a homeland both for herself and for the reader. Only literature of high rank can achieve this.' Matthias Buth, Hermannstadter Zeitung
'Iris Wolff travels along the edges of political systems and transcends them ... The author tells her story in a touching and a stirring manner; because the real background is often blurred, her characters and their experiences aretremendously vivid ...' Cornelia Geissler, Berliner Zeitung
