“With its fascinating, timeless setting and growing sense of eeriness, The Patience of the Admirer can be described as an amazing mixture of Roald Dahl, Faulkner and Proust. And it deserves to be read in small portions, so that Holtet Larsen’s stylistic niceties, remarkable reflections, knowledge of the psychology of the human mind and abundant subtext come into their own. In fact this is not only a long novel, quantity-wise, but also a great novel, quality-wise.”
Fædrelandsvennen
“Reading Terje Holtet Larsen’s new novel The Patience of the Admirer is an intense experience. Intense, because this story told about a human mind is not a light-hearted read, but also because it is expressed in such an insightful way. Since his debut with The Son in 1991, Terje Holtet Larsen has been one of the most exciting writers in this country, both because he employs a language and style that renew the novel genre, and because he has a very rare ability to get inside as well as convey the normally hidden aspects of the human mind.”
Adresseavisen
“Not a great deal happens in Terje Holtet Larsen’s latest novel, but all the same The Patience of the Admirer offers one of the most nail-biting and enthralling reads of the autumn. Quietly but relentlessly, the book’s extremely unreliable narrator draws the reader into his disturbing universe. And once you are ensnared, you are so spellbound that the book is impossible to put down. The Patience of the Admirer is a psychological thriller of the first order.”
Morgenbladet
“Pick up this novel and gain wisdom – about human nature!”
Vårt Land
