»The novel is a plea for not giving up. Neither on yourself, nor others.«

»This being a Daniela Krien novel, the plot develops with summer-like ease; its intellectual depth is revealed almost incidentally.«

»Not one word too many.«

»Daniela Krien has Rahel dive down deeper with every passing day - into the fear of aging, to her failings as a mother, down to the depths of her family history.«

»There’s barely anything more beautiful, elegant or gripping than Krien’s writing.«

»Daniela Krien expertly links one episode to the next, lightly touching upon all the topics that she draws from the zeitgeist.«

»It's pure pleasure to read Daniela Krien's novel.«

»With her new novel The Fire, the author from Leipzig once more proves her talent.«

»How Krien transports her characters away from the world and lets the topics of the present seep in in half sentences, is reminiscent of her previous works.«

»This novel is an absolute treasure trove – filled to the brim with literary delights, and swiftly engrossing.«

»Once again, Krien proves herself to be a grand master of creating a delicately poetic, multi-perspective diagnosis of the times.«

»The seismograph lines register precisely the state of affairs, but they don’t want to be right.«

»A book about daughters and mothers; families, their secrets; about intimacy - and how, despite decades together, we remain individuals - and foreign to one another.«

»You can’t help but think about aging while reading this calm yet intensely readable novel.«

»In clear, unadorned and cliché-free language, The Fire unites the individual with the societal, and even the private with the political.«

»Daniela Krien’s The Fire achieves the masterstroke of touching upon the existential without flaunting it.«

»She writes clearly and without frills. Her language is never banal, but always artfully literary.«

»The author Daniela Krien should be celebrated for her novel The Fire, because there are really few other books that work so well on so many levels.«

»It's very simple, very delicate, very caring, very empathetic; and I like that very much.«

»The author adeptly turns an unsparing gaze on the simple, the succinct, on that which is wordlessly endured in a marriage, and captures it within language.«