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Populated by characters who are searching for meaning in life and in one another -- a hiker waiting for a train in a deserted station, a television journalist who meets an old lover he doesn't really recognize, mismatched lovers, couples married and casual, lost and lonely people -- Botho Strauss's Living Glimmering Lying is a melancholy collection of sketches and vignettes, a series of tableaux of postreunification Berlin.

"At his best, Strauss offers redolent musings, sumptuous and refined."

Noah Isenberg, New York Times Book Review, 10/24/1999

"The Northwestern University Press deserves no small credit for making Strauss's disconcerting vision available to an English-language readership. Ably translated by Roslyn Theobald,LIVING, GLIMMERING ,LYING is actually the third Strauss title to appear from Northwestern in the past half decade.... At a time when the number of translated titles in the United States is approximately half what it was a quarter-century ago, and when preoccupation with our own cultural diversity has largely distracted us from the literary life of much of the rest of the world, the appearance of a novel such as LIVING, GLIMMERING, LYING reminds us of why we have always read literary works in translation, and why we need to continue to read them today: precisely because they are in some ways familiar, and because they are strange--and foreign--too."

Douglas Clayton, Prairie Schooner, Spring 2001

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