'A magnum opus that can take one's breath away, a work so rich and heterogeneous that its like can hardly be found in recent Norwegian literature' - Dagbladet

Jan Kjaerstad was born in Oslo in 1953. He has been awarded the Nordic Prize, the Norwegian Literary Critics Prize, the Aschehoug Prize and the Henrik Steffen Prize, which honours Scandinavians who, in an exceptional way, have enriched European culture and intellectual life. His novels and short stories have been published in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey.