October Child

I admire the author for her honesty and her great talent in finding the right words for the seemingly inexpressible.”

Chosen for the unsentimental language of her portrayal of human existence on the border between a world distorted by psychosis and reality’s structured existence. Her stories are written according to the logic of myths, never asking why, but allowing an understanding of ourselves that is difficult to be determined in the dominant categories

Boström Knausgård is good at evoking the fragility that can afflict even the most loving families

“A tender novel about a mute girl: gentle, sensitive, minimal, concise, subtle, and brutal. This is writing as self-defense and liberation.”