Wolfgang Herrndorf Press Reviews
'German literary thriller that wears its intellectual cred boldly. Surreal comedy hangs a hallucinogenic pall over the reality of post-colonial North Africa in 1972, creating a confusing atmosphere around the central plot strand: who really killed the hippies in the desert commune?' Sunday Times Crime Club
'Enigmatic and moving' Die Zeit
'One of the most original and stylistically impressive German writers' Neue Zurcher Zeitung
'A great writer. A smiling, friendly, sympathetic nihilism shines through his writing' Frankfurter Rundschau
'He remains a witty and incredibly well read artist, who creates a great work of art as he juggles on a tightrope here with violence, death, doom, forgetting and the nothingness of existence' FAZ
'A literary thriller... a terrific novel set in the desert' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
'A gripping and marvelously comic thriller with a philosophical subtext' Focus
About Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf (1965-2013) was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied painting before turning to writing later in his career. He wrote several award-winning novels for adults, and Why We Took the Car is his first book to be published in the UK.
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