«Johansen’s new novel is brilliant literature … There’s something light, hovering about it. But everywhere darkness and heaviness lie in wait … In this novel, a striking description and an evocative comment carries as much wait as the story itself … Johansen’s prose is well suited to portray everyday phenomena in a surprising way. Everyday life is simply lifted poetically. It is bathed in verbal enchantment … The novel is story, meditation and poetry rolled into one”
Atle Christiansen, Aftenposten

“A carefully constructed prose, which squeezes into the tiny cracks of existence, where other books rarely reach”
Tom Egil Hverven, Klassekampen, Books of the Year 2021

“Inghill Johansen has again written a rare, outstanding book … there is a constant tension in Johansen’s books between on the one hand a resigned, passive surrender to the grip that events and objects have on us, and on the other hand trying to break away from them  … The resignation makes way for black humour, genuine despair and a precise, open, wide-eyed realism; the narrator’s attempts to liberate herself are to be found in her hard-won irony and in her modernist-ascetic self-consciousness … Like few others she can start a paragraph with “A man comes walking” and immediately make such a simple sentence vibrate with painful reality”
Erik Bjerck Hagen, Morgenbladet

“Calls forth our inner joy. Inghill Johansen transforms the most ordinary experiences of life to captivating literature, without adding a single drop of magic … Johansen writes slim, memorable books that appear with long intervals. But they are written from scratch, without a single cliché. On the contrary the books are gleefully full of original phrases … That such gloomy perspectives can call forth inner joy is solely due to the fact that Johansen – did I mention that? – studies existence with absurd humour”
Marta Norheim, NRK Bok

“Through her slow publication of books of prose in small formats, Inghill Johansen has developed a unique style, well suited to elucidating how the world changes … This Is G, describes the merciless mutability of time, what it can do to a person … Taken together the inversions of this story – that things are turned upside down – make up a well-composed, complex whole … That something disappears can create new possibilities, for example to write an exquisite novel such as This Is G.”
Tom Egil Herven, Klassekampen