Urs Widmer
Herr Adamson

»This fantastic study of this world and the next, of the spring and the autumn of life, about archaeologists and Navajo Indians, is a great pleasure to read.«Tages-Anzeiger

»A literary dance of death, a thoughtful and mature book about death, ingeniously related. An open-ended book.«Focus

»An attempt to ward off the terror of death through the power of writing and to find a propitiatory response to our primal fear. This is probably the most private book that Urs Widmer has ever written. But above all it is his boldest, maddest, riskiest novel - and doubtless also his best.«Die Weltwoche

»All his stories are really love stories and fables about being on the move, modern Odysseys, full of magic even when reality, politics and war (the war of love) leave his characters maimed and bereft – and yet in the midst of desolation they are never completely desolate. If there still exists a writer today who manages to be utopian without being a blind dreamer, then his name is Urs Widmer.«Der Tagesspiegel

»Few writers can handle the art of exaggeration better, few are more imaginative and bolder in thinking up breakneck roller-coaster rides for the heroes of their novels - but just when our laughter is at its loudest, the ground disappears from beneath our feet, and just when the language becomes crude, we are taken unawares by overtones of poetry. This book is another new variation of the old song of the magic power of story telling.«Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Whimsical, wise, kind, amusing, Urs Widmer would enrich the shelves of Britain’s own bookshops, too.«New Books in German