"Powerfully alive . . . Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties . . . He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary, sometimes banal, and sometimes momentous, but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone . . . There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgaard's book." –James Wood, The New Yorker (selected as one of the Books of the Year)
"A fantastic novel . . . I cannot say anything other than that I am looking forward desperately to the rest of it." –
Dagsavisen (Norway) "Knausgaard's thinking is magnificently unbridled." –
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (germany) "Between Proust and the woods . . . Like granite, precise and forceful. More real than reality." –
La Repubblica (Italy) "I can't stop, I want to stop, I can't stop, just one more page, then I will cook dinner, just one more page . . ." –
Västerbottens-kuriren (Sweden)