«A low-key, well-composed little novel about a big theme: How to continue life in the aftermath of a brutal war … It shows a writer who knows how to convey the most difficult, complicated and darkest emotions and actions in a tight, concise, poetic form … As a reader you feel the cold creep up through the soles of your shoes … a both complex, sharp and disturbing story”
Dagsavisen

“A powerful story of how war keeps on living in the language, in memory and in “this damned blood” … The prose is dense and sensuous, wrapping itself around bodies that can feel international politics pulsing through their veins. It’s well done”
NRK P2

“A sensitive, insightful and wise novel on war and peace, humans and nature and human nature … the underlying tension in the relationship between Reza and his sons, which Ingebrigtsen so convincingly establishes and maintains … eventually finds […] its release in this well-written and thought-provoking novel on contemporary Europe”
Stavanger Aftenblad

“A shocking book on the aftermath of war and about a hatred that still lives. It’s also a beautiful portrait of the solidarity between two brothers, and about the love for an unknown father of the enemy … In beautiful, poetic prose – in long sentences with detailed descriptions that run over several pages – Ingebrigtsen describes the aftermath of war through the landscape and through Isa, his feelings, his cold and his hunger”
Vårt Land