'Something in the critical self is shed in the process of reading Fosse, only to be replaced by something more primal. A mood. An atmosphere. The sound of words moving on a page.' Ruth Margalit, New York Review of Books 'Damion Searls' translation is delicate and rhythmic. Fosse is a great novelist of our time, and if you haven't already discovered him for yourself, this short, sublime novel may be the perfect opportunity.' Rónán Hession, Irish Times 'We are in the presence of rare literary greatness. It is for this greatness that the Swedish Academy has justly awarded Jon Fosse the Nobel prize.

' Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement 'Jon Fosse is a major European writer.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of The Wolves of Eternity 'The Beckett of the twenty-first century.' Le Monde.