»With a wealth of experience and stimulating detail, Rakusa writes not from analytical distance, but from personal concern; her writings, which combine sensuality and poetry with reflection, form a passionate soliloquy and a great essay on the question of what language can achieve in a seemingly hopeless present.« (Manfred Bosch, ekz)

»This magnificent book by the grande dame of literature, who is approaching her 80th birthday, offers no ready-made solutions to the evils of the world. Rather, it opens up a space of seemingly inexhaustible potential, focused on never ceasing to follow one’s longing for human coexistence in peace and freedom.« (schreibfertig.com)

»Ilma Rakusa has always understood how to blend the everyday with the sublime, the personal with the universal, the comical with the tragic. This is also true of this multi-layered chronicle of the recent past.« (Ulrike Sárkány, Lesart)

Sold to Spanish and Turkish and recommended in new books in german: »With its striking fragmented structure and sparing yet beautiful use of language, Meeresbrise is a haunting novel about undisclosed trauma, social marginalisation, coming of age in a rural community and how we establish a life for ourselves. Schutti’s sensitive way with words and keen eye for detail make this high-quality literary fiction with a captivatingly poetic touch.«