»Tuchschneider’s writing is sharp and precise, and her temperament is anarchic in the best sense of the word. As in her first, excellent novella ‘Girl-Soldier,’ and in the fictional world of this current novella nothing is sacred. The bourgeoisie is the mother of all sins, clichés are exaggerated and/or turned on their heads.«
Tamar Mishmar, YNET

»The reader may recoil here and there, because everyone in the book seems perverted and pathetic. The reader’s mind may hear the voice of a security officer shooing curious onlookers away from an accident scene—”Nothing to see here, move along”—but they will stay, they will want to see this accident, and perhaps they will even muster the courage to ask themselves whether they were peeping at others or at themselves.«
Maya Sela for Haaretz

»It’s worth taking a moment to talk about the sex Tuchschneider describes – and it must be said, with remarkable talent: it’s open. Provocative. It seems to me that beneath Tuchschneider’s cheerful and playful writing lies considerable darkness. This combination of a witty surface with sharp, wild turns of phrase that carry pain and hurt, is slowly becoming part of her distinctive writing style.«
Udi Ben Saadia, Culture critic for Walla News

»Paulina Tuchschneider doesn’t follow the rules. She offers something provocative, very bold – this is a real development in Hebrew literature, a voice of a woman that is very cosmopolitan and new.«
Maya Sela, cultural critic and journalist at Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

»I haven’t read a book like this, because there isn’t another book like this, that takes Hebrew and chews it up and rolls it around and produces something completely new. What isn’t in the mix? Real estate and high-tech and married life and spouse swapping and tranquilizers and mothers-in-law from hell and an end-of-the-world atmosphere so let’s go crazy with the neighbour across the street just because we can.«
Hila Regev, journalist, podcaster and influencer

»I’ve never read a book that resembles or even reminds me of Paulina Tuchschneider’s second novel. Her writing made me laugh, disgusted me, satisfied me, shook me, and depressed me, and the sharp transitions between these feelings—sometimes several times on the same page—were as stirring and provocative as the plot itself.«
Maor Heumann, journalist for Davar newspaper

»With a steady voice, fluent language, sharp humour and delightfully witty expressions, Tuchschneider lashes out at bourgeois-consumerist culture, all while her heroine struggles to maintain her physical and mental sanity.«
Sagie Rave, author

»Tuchschneider elaborates a consciously and ingeniously physical portrait of the kind of torture involved in being treated as some kind of indiscriminate commodity or contingent – the soldier contingent – only then to attack the real meaninglessness of war (…) How necessary, how indispensable, is this, Tuchschneider’s first novel.«
El País

»A viscous, raw and briskly told story of initiation.«
La Vanguardia

»With the freshness of, at the same time, any high-quality contemporary autofiction – from Sheila Heti to Chris Kraus – and any absurd account of life among potential combatants – (…) Tuchschneider serves up an anti-war treatise, or manifesto, in which, for the first time, there is talk of tampons and tiny villains related to disgust – like the cockroaches that are everywhere – or of the fear of the rifle – which must not be abandoned even during showers – as representative of everything that is being imposed on her.«
El País

»In Girl Soldier, an irreverent, anti-war book, devoid of any patriotic glorification, the question of the mental health of those over whom the threat of imminent war continually looms is addressed.«
Zenda Libros

»A woman soldier’s auto-fictional shot at the absurdity of war.«
El País

»Her potent and appropriate and necessary nihilism is the improvised, sudden nihilism of the present, with no history other than that of the moment, because it is the moment that is all that exists in contemporary society.«
El País