«Grytten writes brilliantly and with empathy about men on the verge of a breakdown … a tour de force which would be impossible within the frames of a novel, quite simply because Grytten in this collection can do pull his brilliant tricks ten times in a row. His mastery of the form has an overwhelming impact … With his writing he cuts into a social problem, without preaching”
Aftenposten
“Brilliant writing on homeless men … The author goes beneath the short depictions of the media, to show us the nuances in human minds that highly different from each other … Grytten delivers both sharp social analysis and brilliant prose with this climax of his oeuvre so far. Bravo”
6/6 stars, Bergens Tidende
“Frode Grytten has written an incredibly good short story collection … In Grytten stories there is poetry in each word, in each sentence … Each story keeps me in its grip until the very end: I want to finish it, I want to see where Grytten takes me”
5/6 stars, VG
«This book is like a ten track version of Springsteen’s noir album Nebraska, a series of acoustic ballads about ‘roads connected to other roads, which in the end become the road that will take us home»
5/6 stars, Dagbladet
“It’s not crime, but Grytten touches upon the genre with his powerful stories, where men get into trouble for reasons connected to flaws or faulty behavior … do not expect moral conclusions in Grytten’s universe, and not solutions either, but if you expect a powerful read, that’s what you will get … There is a solid fundament in Grytten’s short stories, there is concrete in his prose.”
5/6 stars, Adresseavisen
