"Doppelgänger, a boldly virtuosic novella in two parts, mirroring the realities of Croatia and Serbia, sees Drndic delighting in Beckettian high art. . . More than any of Drndic's wonderful collage, archival, semi-autobiographical narratives thus far translated, it is the brief, if immense, Doppelgänger that may surprise even her established readers." - Eileen Battersby, The Financial Times

"Fragmented but not disjointed, Beckettian as well as Bernhardian, Doppelgänger is complex, dark and funny: a strange gem."- Claire Messud, Guardian

'. . . Drndic brought her characters to their ends, "in a world in its death throes". Her incisive skill and radical style render potentially grim reading compulsive. She was a voice of - and for - our times' - Amanda Hopkinson, Times Literary Supplement

"Incredibly dark, there's also a great lightness to the stories; they're not weighed down by what grimness they seem to have, and though not really funny there's a comic touch and a well-captured sense of absurdities of human existence.. . It's hard or impossible to describe and convey everything Drndic does -- which is, of course, why you should read it. This is remarkable writing, and this is a very, very fine twinned multi-faceted work." - M.A.Orthofer, The Complete Review