“If I were to recommend a book that offers more than entertainment as you read it, then I would come down heavily in favour of this book.”
NRK P2

“With no exaggeration, I would claim that The Performance is one of the most interesting and original novels I have read this autumn.”
Dagsavisen

“This is an intelligent and shrewd novel.”
Dagbladet

“This is a well written, tautly constructed novel, executed with complete control, from the viewpoint of both the first-person narrator and the author behind the text.”
Aftenposten

“An existential novel about fundamental human needs. It contains both gravity and human nature, but also a great deal of humour.”
Fædrelandsvennen

“The Performance proves to be a tautly composed text, a literary piece of advanced, intimate jazz, which fills the reader with wonder and disquiet.”
Bergens Tidende

“Let it be said immediately: with The Performance, Terje Holtet Larsen has written a novel which is first of all fascinating and secondly, well executed.The Performance is a text which – to a large degree – is as outstanding as literature as it is a delight to read.”
Bergensavisen