Peter Sherwood’s translation is crisp and clean as always, and we should be grateful for his continuing work to bring Hungarian fiction to the English-reading world....
With their linguistic skills and perfect pitch, Julia and Peter Sherwood have done as much for the international reputation of Slovak prose as any single Slovak writer....
Julia Sherwood, who works in collaboration with her husband Peter, has been almost singlehandedly responsible for the recent emergence of Slovak literature from near-total obscurity....