This translation was published in hardcover by Macmillan in June, 2018,[4] and in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Harvill Secker.

[5][6] In his review for The Guardian, Edmund White wrote, "Thanks to translator Lorin Stein it has retained its complexity, its startling physicality and its moral subtlety in English.

"[7] Johanna Thomas-Corr of The Times called it "a slim but densely layered novel that begins with raw urgency, but then slows and circles the attack, hovering over it with an unnerving luxury.

[10][11] In February 2023, Deadline Hollywood reported that Christopher Zwickler and Dario Suter optioned the book rights for a German-language film adaptation.

The project is collaboration between the German distributor-producer DCM and the Berlin-based producer Flute Film.