Uwe Tellkamp
Praise for The Tower
Tellkamp depicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR's bureaucracy. He speaks with the slowness and sobriety that comes with growing up in a system where the wrong word at the wrong time can set one's existence ...
Standpoint
Memories and impressions grow wild across the lattice of the plot, bringing the symphonic book to - but never over - the brink of cacophony
Jane Yager, The Times Literary Supplement
The awfulness of life under the socialist regime is brilliantly done
Sunday Times Culture
Tellkamp depicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR's bureaucracy. He speaks with the slowness and sobriety that comes with growing up in a system where the wrong word at the wrong time can set one's existence ...
Standpoint
Memories and impressions grow wild across the lattice of the plot, bringing the symphonic book to - but never over - the brink of cacophony
Jane Yager, The Times Literary Supplement
The awfulness of life under the socialist regime is brilliantly done
Sunday Times Culture
Tellkamp depicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR's bureaucracy. He speaks with the slowness and sobriety that comes with growing up in a system where the wrong word at the wrong time can set one's existence ...
Standpoint
Memories and impressions grow wild across the lattice of the plot, bringing the symphonic book to - but never over - the brink of cacophony
Jane Yager, The Times Literary Supplement
The awfulness of life under the socialist regime is brilliantly done
Sunday Times Culture