Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Victoria Kielland is a Norwegian writer. My Men was published to rave reviews in Norway, earning her several prizes including the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize and the Norwegian Academy's Thorleif Dahl Prize, of which she was the youngest ever recipient. The novel is also being translated into 14 languages. Kielland's debut short story collection, I Lyngen (In the Heather), was shortlisted for the Tarjei Vesaas First Book Prize, and her first novel, Dammyr (Marsh Pond), was shortlisted for the Youth Critics' Prize. Damion Searls has translated more than fifty books of classic modern literature, including works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Elfriede Jelinek and Jon Fosse. His own writing includes fiction, poetry, criticism, The Inkblots-a history of the Rorschach Test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach-and The Philosophy of Translation, forthcoming.The intense, progressively feverish quality of the novel is far closer to the visceral interiority of Clarice Lispector or Jean Rhys than anything by Jo Nesbø or Stieg Larsson... A singular novel of unusual power from a fearless and remarkable writer
- Carys Davies, Guardian
This fascinating, off-kilter novel about a female serial killer is an unexpectedly thrilling read
- Karl Ove Knausgaard,
An extraordinary, visceral fictionalisation of Belle's life... Belle's story is not one of a police procedural or thriller... The prose flies and flays, is porous and illuminating
Irish Times
An extraordinary portrait of the inner turmoil and ecstasy of the woman widely regarded to be America's first female serial killer
Marie Claire
My Men, superbly translated by Damion Searls, is a portrait of a woman trying, and failing, to escape her punishing trajectory. Bit by bit, day by day, we see, and come to understand, what has made Belle Gunness a killer
New York Times
Kielland plumbs Belle's inner life in jaggedly rhythmic prose, where what should be obvious is sometimes opaque and what's often shrouded - female rage - takes centre stage
New York Times, Best Crime Books of the Year
A stylistic tour de force, a third-person account of Belle Gunness's grotesque odyssey as perceived through her own sensorium... A gifted writer
Wall Street Journal
Her spiritual yearning and profane desires are captured in dynamic and subversive prose as Kielland explores how Belle's homicidal tendencies derive from a perverted sense of love. It's an impressive feat of historical imagination
Publishers Weekly
Lyrical... Despite the subject matter, this novel is not your typical thriller. The language, in Searls' translation, is dense, poetic, and deeply figurative
Kirkus Reviews
One of the best young authors we have... Kielland makes Brynhild tragic rather than cold-blooded
Morgenbladet
Gripping, unique, and amazingly well-written
Vårt Land
Unusual and extraordinary
Klassekampen
What this rich and poignant novel does is try to get as deep as possible to the core of a person who struggles with what she is doing to the world and to herself. My Men is a literary achievement of the highest order
De Standaard, 5 stars