Seethaler is known for celebrating the unsung . . . who draw us into their quiet lives. A distinguished miniaturist * * The Spectator * * Praise for Robert Seethaler: 'Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness. Seethaler is in his very own league, capturing a place and time that is ultimately universal' -- ELIZABETH STROUT A poet of the small, the random and the event without consequence, [ Seethaler's] is a world we can all enjoy * * Guardian * * Seethaler's literary preoccupations [ can be placed] alongside writers such as Claire Keegan, John Berger or John Williams * * Financial Times * * The prose has the stillness of a Vermeer . . . In a world of action movies and social media there's little time for quiet contemplation. Seethaler reminds us we're part of a whole * * Spectator * * Seethaler renders a life at once ordinary and exquisite, exploring the vagaries of solitude with a gentle humility * * Times Literary Supplement * * Seethaler's prose is deceptively simple, filled with exquisite yet simple details. . . warm, fleeting, and profoundly human * * Independent Book Review * * A god of ordinary people's feelings . . . characters and settings come alive without a single wasted word and with no undue heaviness * * Frankfurter Rundschau * *
