Decompression - Softcover

JULI ZEH's novels include Eagles and Angels, winner of numerous prizes including the German Book Prize, Gaming Instinct, In Free Fall, and The Method. She has worked at the United Nations in New York, taught at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, and currently lives in Brandenburg. In 2013 she was awarded the Thomas Mann Prize.

"A mesmerizing and disturbing psychological thriller...Zeh's talent pulls this morally murky tale up from the depths and toward a redeeming light." —Wall Street Journal

"Erotic intrigue, deep-sea diving and clients from hell make for a lively mix in this German author’s fourth novel.... The gathering suspense is complemented by nuanced characterization in a pleasingly unpredictable work." —Kirkus Reviews

"Zeh is adept at describing the carelessness and perversities of the rich and famous.... [T]his is a story about obsession – this time with status, looks, and celebrity culture." —The Independent

"Gripping...Zeh is exceptional at building tension, and her use of shifting viewpoints keeps the reader guessing to the end. A darkly comic thriller that is impossible to put down." —Library Journal

“A tale that unfolds at a high level of psychological excitement.” —Der Spiegel
 
“A nightmarish, furious, cold thriller...Juli Zeh is at her literary best when she's describing underwater silence, when she's describing situations in which isolation is total and the world as it exists above water is bidden farewell. This is phenomenal.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
 
“Juli Zeh's love-triangle drama easily bears comparison with the work of Patricia Highsmith, doyenne of the conspicuously amoral.” —Brigitte