“An extraordinarily beautiful and sweet novel about sexuality … there is plenty to chew on in Kjell Askildsen’s extraordinarly beautiful novel about David’s Brother, the very human Frans. And if you can make a teenager you know read it in a hammock, I’m quite certain that there will be both crooked smiles, a new self-confidence and good conversation over supper”
5/6 stars, Marie Louise Wedel Bruun, Berlingske, Denmark

“a small book, strangely filled with silence, a portrait of a 16-year-old crossing the line between dream and life (…) It is relieving to read something youthful making so little racket.”
Johan Borgen, Dagbladet

“It has a true poetic spirit (…) he is an artist, thus we want to lead the particular reader to this novel (…) Askildsen portrays the expectations of a young boy with enormous gentleness.”
VG