“The author shows how Mimina’s art touches the lives of very different people. The singer’s unexpected death raises existential questions concerning life, longings and love in the seven characters … Kiøsterud draws profound sketches of his characters, at times unpleasantly close … as usual the Drammen writer’s prose is powerful”
Trønder-avisa

“Confident written and clearly conceived about the longing for what reason cannot grasp … The novel is unusually well written, like Kiøsterud’s novels always are, and he reaches deep down into existential questions around meaning and loss of meaning … read as an allegory of the power of art mediated through Mimina’s unique and almost holy talent, the novel gets a new dimension that falls into the eternally topical insight from the romantic age about what art and language really should do.”
Dag og tid

“I have always thought that Kiøsterud is a writer preoccupied with individuality. He shows his characters as different people, with different life stories, different experience, different assumptions, different expectations of life. But he also has a quite unique eye for the conditions of life we all share. We will grow up, carry around memories, find people, lose people and fall. Make a life hang together. To me this attempt to circle in a common human experience is the most wonderful thing about this year’s book”
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