»Jump stands out for its richly evocative writing, its gentle, sensuous style and its unusually gripping storyline.«

»Set in a well-constructed mosaic of stories author Simone Lappert depicts how a single dramatic moment can affect different individual lives in the multi-layered novel Jump.«

»Simone Lappert is a stroke of luck for literature.«

»Lappert creates scenes in which the dialogue gives rise to subtly humorous situational comedy, giving these rather tragic figures a hint of levity.«

»A carefully constructed plot, told with verve.«

»In this dance of the wounded, Lappert is in keeping with the times and gets up close and personal with current social developments.«

»Lappert brings together these lives and stories with a sure hand and connects them, sometimes closely, sometimes loosely.«

»Simone Lappert is a gifted narrator: there is no question about it.«

»In the last twenty years no other novel in this country has been as suspensefully narrated.«

»The question how we as a society rate empathy, how we treat people who fall out of line, who don’t act according to our norms, runs through the text.«

»Detailed and yet with not a single word out of place, Lappert recounts the events of one day and one night, describing life exactly as it is, without flourishes and without ever becoming dull.«

»Straightforward, sharp and yet told with great feeling. A truly wonderful work of literature.«

»The prologue is one single sentence, separated only by commas. On the first read, I didn’t even notice; it feels and sounds right just like that.«

»It’s smart, gripping, entertaining.«

»Every page of this novel radiates an irrepressible joy for writing, an irrepressible delight in creating unique characters and stories.«

»Jump is an artfully constructed, multi-layered novel. The language is graceful and articulate, scrupulous and unadorned.«

»Simone Lappert immerses herself in the inner worlds of outsiders.«

»Abysses gape open more and more until suddenly it's no longer clear who has lost the plot, the one up there or the one down below.«

»When I was reading the novel in preparation for the evening, I was so immersed in it that I missed my stop.«

»This is one of those books that can be read in one sitting.«

»Manu’s decision does something to people: it makes them pause.«

»The characters’ personal fates are told in a discontinuous, but complete manner and for all of them the reader feels a strong, empathic attraction.«