“her most passionate novel … In her new novel, the Norwegian writer grips the reader from the very first page … a book which is as enchanting as it is cruel.”
Le Figaro, France
“This fantastic, infinitely brutal text describes three generations of women, with all they’ve been through, everything they have concealed … in this beautiful text we again see the author’s ability to construct all her characters in the most meticulous way, to give each and every one of them a voice of their own, a body language, a fate … This author, who writes books in rapid succession that become bestsellers all over the world, has a shocking honesty, a sense of humour that endures everything and a never-ending concern for the world.”
L’Express, France
“a beautiful and dramatic family saga which stretches back to the 19th century and explores the whole spectre of human emotions.”
Elle, France
“The Arsenic Tower is far from the navel-gazing, self-examining books that are fashionable these days … How come some novelists take hold of you and keep you in their grip, make you smile knowingly, laugh uncontrollably, and evoke, with no sentimentality whatsoever, melancholy in you? It is an enormous gift to be able to tell stories and write novels. This is a gift Anne B. Ragde most definitely have.”
Le Canard Enchâiné, France
“The book you need to read this week”
Grazie, France
“Impressive family saga … Without making any great stylistic innovations, Ragde depicts different times and social circles with an impressive wealth of details of different times and social circles, … With THE ARSENIC TOWER … steps forward as an outstanding Scandinavian storyteller.”
Politiken, Denmark
”… in many ways a more serious and emotionally combustible book than the [Berlin Poplar] trilogy … vivid and colourful … Ragde’s books have breadth and intimacy – and not least a contagious love of the crooked and self contradictory. In other words: bestseller potential.”
Information, Denmark
“A magnificent novel”
Adresseavisen
“A tremendous book, a real entertainment novel in the literal sense of the word, one of those that pulls the reader along from the first page until the last… and there is not a single dull point on any of them”
NRK, Kulturnytt
“A great family chronicle about three generations of women that demonstrates to what extent coincidences often have far-reaching consequences for our descendants”
Østlands-Posten
