More German reviews
NDR is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. On 6 June 2006 they broadcast a review of Epic. From the Google translation:
Kostick [is influenced by?] political philosophers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and Marx, and so this novel is [...] at the same time also an argument [about] different social utopias.Schmitz junior (a bookshop for children's literature) has a nice picture of the German cover: