«This new English translation by Michael Hofmann - the first in more than 75 years - expertly captures the fecundity, originality and musicality of Döblin's masterpiece ... A bold and dazzling collage of a novel»

The National

«Ace translator Michael Hofmann has delivered an exhilarating new version of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: that street-smart, slang-filled, richly allusive tale of crime, punishment and social crisis in the capital of Weimar Germany just before Hitler's rise to power. Hofmann's firecracker prose fizzes through this revolutionary trip into the lower depths of big-city life»

Boyd Tonkin

«The classic Weimar novel ... Long branded untranslatable, a fluent, pacy new translation by Michael Hofmann gainsays that assumption, opening up the book for English-speakers»

Economist

«Reading it was the most wonderful experience»

Deborah Moggach, Saturday Review

«Franz Biberkopf is one of the modern world's richest literary characters, as memorable as Woyzeck, Oblomov or Madame Bovary»

New York Review of Books

«Berlin Alexanderplatz is Europe's Moby-Dick ... both seriously significant and a great deal of fun»

John Self

«A flashing kaleidoscope of a novel ... Michael Hofmann's translation has a vivid immediacy»

Country & Town House

«Brutal and prophetic ... a turning point in the history of the German novel»

The Times

«Berlin Alexanderplatz, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, still fascinates as a cautionary tale by shining light on the most obscure parts of the human soul.»

Tobias Grey, Wall Street Journal