“Ingebrigtsen’s prose is good and precise, and the structure of the novel is balanced. You sense that the text on one level deals with alienation that arises when society takes over responsibility of certain things. How does it affect us that we will not be caring for the sick, even though they are our parents or children?”
Vårt Land

“In Johan, there are great emotions at play – grief, longing, loneliness, refusal to see his own shortcomings… and I believe him one hundred percent … The sentimental is also part of life, and this is quite simply a beautiful novel. The writing is dense, full of wise observations by a narrator who has his human weaknesses, but who therefore seems all the more relevant”
Klassekampen

“Ingebrigtsen’s depiction of four days before christmas in the life of a 74 your old man, is an unusually wonderful read … It’s probably the prose itself which is the real achievement in this novel. Concrete and concise, with great care for all the little things everyday life consists of – food, snow, wood, thoughts. Thus we are offered the voice of a man the reader will remember”
NRK P2

“a sentimental text.Well written, and nicely portioned out in four days … The prose is very good, the intensity of the experience of being trapped in loneliness and old age is carefully described”
Dagsavisen

“convinces as literature … a powerful, fragile, painful and beautiful novel, and a wonderful addition to a body of work which is growing more and more interesting”
Stavanger Aftenblad