Back to Back (Paperback)

"Like an expert geologist, Franck is digging deep into her family's extraordinary history creating things of beauty from its dark recesses. Diamond-hard and full of glittering prose, Back to Back is a powerful and moving book. I suspect there are more gems to come" -- David Annand * Sunday Telegraph *
"Intoxicating... A curious fusion of stark realism tempered with quirkily stylistic flights of fancy: the trademark of one of Germany's finest contemporary novelists" -- Malcolm Forbes * Literary Review *
"Franck is an outstanding talent of the Germany literary landscape" * Stuttgarter Zeitung *
"Portrays the rise and fall of the state's ideals via the finely observed life of an artist and her children - a Jewish sculptor who survives to flourish, at a cost, in the GDR" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
"A virtuoso creator of poetically charged moods...never before has East Germany been so radically depicted as dead at birth as in the arresting, magical narrative web of Julia Franck" * Literarische Welt *