Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin.

"The subject is not failed love - Sibylle's apparent emotional coldness - but the failure of love - the protagonist's helpless inability, in the crucial moment, to accept his human responsibility toward the beloved." (Neue Zurcher Zeitung.) "The work bears the face of its time, but it is so gentle, silent and veiled that one can barely exclude the person behind the mask. A mask is in fact this face, because the hero is a heroine who does not want to be seen." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)"

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin.

"The subject is not failed love - Sibylle's apparent emotional coldness - but the failure of love - the protagonist's helpless inability, in the crucial moment, to accept his human responsibility toward the beloved." (Neue Zurcher Zeitung.) "The work bears the face of its time, but it is so gentle, silent and veiled that one can barely exclude the person behind the mask. A mask is in fact this face, because the hero is a heroine who does not want to be seen." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)"