Against Art

Reviews:

"... one of the most beautiful, most important books I've read for years"
Johan Harstad, Klassekampen

"Tomas Espedal has written an amazingly rich novel, which will assuredly stand out as one of the year's best and will also further fortify the quality of Norwegian literature abroad"
Stein Roll, Adresseavisen

"Tomas Espedal has a personally centred literary project that he pursues and expands with fascinating force and consistency (...) It's marvellous to have him around"
Steinar Sivertsen, Stavanger Aftenblad

"Against Art attacks literature while at the same time being intensely literary. Our greatest sorrows and torments, the individual experiences often so anaemic in art, find a voice of their own."
Bernhard Ellefsen, Morgenbladet

"A lyrical style that captures both fleeting and enduring moments of happiness, but dwells to an even greater extent on the loss and grief that will and must follow. Espedal's writing sparkles, some of his lines shine out, rich in association"
Hans H. Skei, Aftenposten

"Espedal's book stands out signally as a wonderful piece of work that shuns easy, ingenious shortcuts, and as a result is solid to the core"
Gro Jørstad Nilsen, Bergens Tidende

"Perhaps it's as simple as that. Against Art deals with loss, and Tomas Espedal deserves to be published in forty languages"
Frode Johansen Riopelle, Klassekampen