Quote Sheet:A NovelDorothea DieckmannTranslated by T Mohr ‘Extraordinary novel … a finely judged balance of art and anguish … Dieckmann’s potently empathetic novel shows more clearly than any amount of CNN footage that the battle continues, but neither side is winning’
— Michel Faber Guardian ‘One of the best, if not the best German novel to be published since the dawn of the new millennium’
— Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ‘Dieckmann’s close focus pays off, like a blow to the head’
— Publisher’s Weekly ‘An unforgiving read … disorienting and scouringly brutal … beautifully written’
— L Magazine ‘Released in the author’s native Germany, where it’s been hailed as a modern classic, Guantanamo is a harrowing work of fiction ... While non-fiction books on this topic proliferate, it’s Dieckmann’s novel that takes us deepest into the personal horror of the modern American gulag’
— Time Out Chicago (five starred review) ‘An extraordinary novel … The writing is so powerful that you are disturbingly drawn into his trancelike world … A powerful indictment of the US’s shameful programme of renditions, secret detention and torture’
— Socialist Review ‘Dieckmann describes torture … in cold, precise detail. Reading [Guantanamo] can cause a sort of bone-chill to set in, and an even more discomforting sense of awe’
— The Village Voice, New York | 
