I will admit that I can't read one page of Zeh's stuff (I am only glancing at her books in bookstores). German high lit is just so not my thing. :) I try to read whatever shite book wins the Georg-Büchner-Preis, but in the last years I did not manage to get into a single one of them. An overboarding usage of needless and senseless similes are part of it, definitely.