The traces of East Germany continue to vibrate in the unsettled politics of today's Germany, and Erpenbeck applies her finely calibrated divining rod to chart that story down the decades.--Anne McElvoy "The Financial Times"

Exquisite... Erpenbeck masterfully conveys the sense of before and after that comes with living in the aftermath, moving deftly between the everyday and the ways in which history impacts it.--Necia Chronister "World Literature Today"

"Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating--ferocious as well as virtuosic."--Deborah Eisenberg "The New York Review of Books"

"Her retrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming."--Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love

Beguiling... What I love most about Erpenbeck's writing is how naturally such eccentric yet deeply humane provocations come.--Ellen Peirson-Hagger "The Observer"

"The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times."--Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others

Meditative, moving, and profoundly beautiful.--Edmund de Waal

In these tender, poignant pieces, Jenny Erpenbeck is attuned to the silence left in the wake of an absence or disappearance. She captures the ineffable quality of memory with a quiet, haunting intensity, where a sentence or a paragraph can turn on a word and devastate.--Mary Costello

An ethereal collection of memories, delicately rendered before their inevitable crumbling away.... A wistful record of memory and loss. Ephemeral musings, both peculiar and poetic-- "Kirkus"

Things That Disappear captures with startling lucidity a modernity characterized by unrest, upset, and dissolution.--Philip Harris "The Cleveland Review of Books"

Erpenbeck's words are a kind of bulwark, a catalog of the minor details and inconsequential impressions that make up the course of a private life. They are her fragments, shored up against forgetting. And in reading, they become ours too.--Robert Rubsam "The Baffler"

With its philosophical observations about everyday life compressed into brief anecdotes, the feuilleton is a venerable literary form, practiced in Germany by the likes of Joseph Roth, Walter Benjamin, and Siegfried Kracauer. Now available in English in Kurt Beals's translation, Things That Disappear shows Erpenbeck to be a worthy inheritor of this tradition.-- "The New York Times"

A kaleidoscopic of transience... this collection of columns reveals a keen eye for the details that mark the passing of time.--Alex Clark "The Guardian"