'. . . particularly peculiar, breath-taking and worth telling.'
Alexander Solloch, NDR Kultur
'Francis Nenik tells [. . .] this man s story from his birth in 1911 to his years in the KPD, in Nazi imprisonment, in the Wehrmacht, the new beginning, via sudden twists, crashes, departures. He has found a tone that corresponds to his hero s defiant independence.'
Süddeutsche Zeitung
'With an inclination for the apparently tangential, precise research and a generous portion of linguistic confidence, Francis Nenik pulls off the trick of distilling a kind of micro-history of the absurd 20th century itself out of the life of a wrongly forgotten man.'
Deutschlandfunk Büchermarkt
'Nenik seems not only to be a researcher as obsessive as he is gifted, with the nose of a truffle hog. He can also write. And how. In his pleasantly dimensioned 192-pager, luscious elements of Anglophone historians narrative talent, including first-person perspective, are wedded with the picaresque novelist s lust for imaginative style.'
Sächsische Zeitung
'. . . a vividly written slice of German history which finds suitable form in this mixture of non-fiction and novel.'
MDR Kultur
'. . . history written as we have never read before, fast-paced, subjective and funny.'
The Daily Frown
