"An intriguing, poetic work...the pathos of the French countryside is depicted vividly--it is a landscape of a Brueghel painting, Ms. Léon using a palette of various shades of grey and blinding, frightening white. Descriptions of the changing effects of light, perhaps a nod to Gustave Flaubert, are particularly striking." --The Economist

"An elegant and finely focused winter's tale. It starts out quietly dramatic and atmospheric but gradually builds and burns...nimbly done...gripping." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The friendship of two men bound together by their all-consuming dedication to music is at the center of this novel." --The New Yorker

"[A] poetic tale of music, love, lust, and dark secrets." --The Advocate, The Best LGBTQ Novels We Discovered This Year

"Splendidly translated...an atmospheric, delicately wrought study of misunderstood emotion, heartbreaking yet incisive." --Library Journal

"A short, intense novel...Léon's writing is gorgeous...a beautiful account of friendship, love, and artistic devotion." --BookRiot

"Léon perfectly measures out past and present to reach a satisfying and intimate crescendo." --Booklist

"[Wanderer] treats the relationship between the two men with a delicacy that is unexpectedly moving." --Kirkus Reviews

"Léon has interesting things to say about friendship and love--and about the way that those two registers of feeling vex each other." --World Literature Today

"The German word Wanderer means 'traveler.' This romantic figure of the vagabond infuses this delicate and poetic story, which favors harsh winter nights." --L'Express Styles

"This is a first novel as visual as it is musical, which reads in one go and leaves behind another beautiful melody: that of a new talent blossoming." --Luxemburger Wort

"A story of reunion between musicians. A story of friendship between two men. A tribute to the great German Romanticism. All in a light, refined prose imbued with winter tones." --La Montagne