Tulli typically depicts characters on the run. We encounter them in hotels — away from home — underscoring their vulnerability. - Sarmatian Review. In an unspecified, presumably Eastern European city, in an unspecified contemporaneous time, we meet a handful of vaguely menacing, deliberately generic characters—a businessman, a red-haired woman, a “grinning hipster in a studded leather jacket. This extraordinary work, unique in both form and message, shows a European master at the height of her powers and constitutes a major contribution to a new century of European literature. A wildly inventive page-turner.