“A great Norwegian writer…Ola Bauer passes on in a literary sense the Norwegian vitality stemming from Aksel Sandemose and Agnar Mykle, mixing it with American Beat novelists such as Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, and making the hybrid his own, also in the sense of its tremendous linguistic vitality. This is the art of fiction at its most spectacular.”
(HANS HERTEL, POLITIKEN, 5 STARS)

“Simply a revelation…crackingly well-written. The language seethes and bubbles and glitters.”
(JØRGEN JOHANSEN, BERLINGSKE, 5 STARS)

“A dazzling novel. To read every paragraph of the late Norwegian Ola Bauer’s novel is like opening a bottle of champagne.”
(LARS OLE KNIPPEL, JYLLANDS-POSTEN, 5 STARS)

“Saturated with juice and power, sensuality, sex, love and life, The Horse-Head Nebula is a wonderful novel! …I am completely sold! The Horse-Head Nebula is a powerful novel through and through, like life itself: violent, bloody, loving, uncompromisingly raw, and voluptuous. Per Petterson calls him Sandemose’s heir, and I am completely bowled over!”
(PERNILLE LISBORG, LITTERATURSIDEN.DK)

“Steam rises from the pages, and in the midst of all this restrained prose the pictures remain, just like flowering poppies in a waving cornfield. Blood-red, feather-light and sparkling. Read him!”
(BENT STENBAKKEN, NORDJYSKE, 5 STARS)

“A Norwegian coming-of-age novel of the utmost rarity; full of madness, tragedy and poetry”
(LARS BONNEVIE, WEEKENDAVISEN)