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"An important ... stir-causing novel with a gentle, lyrical flavour." (London Review of Books)

"A savage, demonic work, but also a gentle, magically lyrical one." (Die Zeit)

"Cow is firm-fleshed, straight-backed, warm, impressive, like the large Swiss cattle it describes ... an original, powerful, important novel, with a great ancient theme that is so modern and immediate as well.
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"Sterchi's astonishing fiction is a protest against our civilisation's reliances on dirty work and wasted people, and Cow's larger affinities lie with hardy's Jude, modernism's stuck pig, and Kafka's K., scapegoat of scapegoats. Cow is a memorable and great fiction: hurt, and about hurting, with the power for (one hopes) positive hurt." (London Observer)

"The irruption of Sterchi's Cow on our tame and anemic literary scene recalls nothing so much as the appearance of The Tin Drum" (Der Spiegel)