“Kjell Askildsen has carved out a perfect style in his slim collection of short stories. Words have been transformed to art. The conversations have lines. Nothing is superfluous.”
Aftenposten

“exceptionally well done (…) I cannot see that any short story writer can compare with Askildsen in this country today.”
Klassekampen

“These little dramas are painfully precise. Askildsen’s stylistic and psychological insight penetrates the ordinariness of the situation, arriving at the naked and difficult coexistence of the sexes.”
Dagbladet