Katharina Hacker (All press)
- Jul 1 2008
The Scotsman: "to get everything out of [The have-Nots] you should probably read it at least twice. It is good enough to deserve that attention." - Mar 31 2008
The Boston Globe: "The title characters, the have-nots of this unsettling novel, are not its protagonists but rather features of the human landscape in which its more advantaged central characters act out their amorphous crises." - Mar 26 2008
Three Percent: "In the four—really many more than that—simultaneous stories, dozens of lives perform work on the others; each story acts as a cog, turning the others in a gloriously complex movement that anyone could appreciate." - Feb 19 2008
Rapsheet: "The Have-Nots has won lots of prizes, raves, and sales in her native Germany, and now, thanks to the bold folk at Europa Editions, promises to shake up American readers who don’t see that many German thrillers as good as this." - Feb 1 2008
Library Journal: "Hacker’s plain sentences and long paragraphs bring to mind William Faulkner’s deceptively simple narrative style. This honest portrayal of the dark side of the human psyche understandably won the 2006 German Book Prize for best novel." - Dec 8 2007
Publishers Weekly: "Hacker's prose, aided by Atkins's pristine translation, soars, particularly in her treatment of city and bourgeois life...she admirably explores modern urban life from the unsettled haves to the desperate have-nots." - Oct 8 2006
Die Zeit: “With strong, clear brushstrokes, Hacker has given us an unyielding portrait of these our ambiguous times. She has succeeded in creating a novel that is at the same time a smart, critical analysis of contemporary times and an exciting read." - Sep 16 2006
Frankfurter Rundschau: “This novel accomplishes something outstanding: not only is it very well-written, intelligent, touching, and spellbinding, it is also significant . . . It’s most captivating feature is its considerable psychological breadth.” - May 4 2006
Die Welt: “Katharina Hacker proves that, like the older generation of writers, our younger authors are also capable of offering their contemporaries books that are genuine revelations, that elucidate the urgent questions of our time.”