The Method

This is a brilliant, disturbing and wildly imaginative picture of the nanny state run mad; how far should the State be allowed to poke its nose into a citizen's business?

Kate Saunders, Times

Zeh seems to have won every European literary prize going...Three years since its first publication in German (it is translated here with tremendous gusto by Sally-Ann Spencer), Zeh’s novel is even more relevant to our over-structure, over-quantified times.

Simon Ings, Guardian

An impressively plausible account of a conformist society disguised as a utopia

Lucy Popescu, Independent

In Sally-Ann Spencer's superb translation from German, Juli Zeh's novel gives form to a dystopia that remains hauntingly recognizable

Charlotte Ryland, Times Literary Supplement

Thoughtful and intelligent...her main character Mia is an intellectual heroine as much as a physical rebel.

Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald

Tightly plotted, philosophically enquiring and disturbingly plausible

List

A work of prophetic historic pessimism, The Method is closer to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World than to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Juli Zeh pictures the lapse into brutality with a strange coldness. She is an analytic, apocalyptical writer in the tradition of Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

Die Zeit

Juli Zeh is an Olympian narrator who regards her characters from an extremely wide angle... This author excels in creating experimental set-ups, sharp-witted intellectual ping-pong games, told with narrative verve and sanguinity.

Der Spiegel