Range

Nors' writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master -- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
Reading Nors's work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living -- Yiyun Li, author of Things in Nature Merely Grow
A singular prose stylist. . . she is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising -- Max Porter, author of Shy
It's a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies
A writer of moments - quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic * Paris Review *
Nors can't help but handle words in interesting ways and put them to original uses. . . If her subject is unwavering, her style remains restless, less out of a desire to be "experimental" than out of playfulness and a genuine yearning, one feels, for contact and connection * New York Times *
Nors has found her own space away from Copenhagen's literati. . . Her words whip along, each idea cascading into the next: it's like having a window into someone's thoughts * Independent *
After an astrophysics professor craving solitude moves to a sparsely populated rural area, she finds it's harder to get away from other people than she thought * New York Times, The Novels Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer *
As 'the stars stand still' and 'the planets wander,' a secluded astrophysicist accepts the solace of found family in the affecting novel Range * Foreword Reviews *
A modern classic in the making * Göteborgs-Posten (SE) *
A formidable novel that gives food for thought to the right reader. It should be read slowly to take in everything - the said, the unsaid, and the implied. It is beautifully written in both character and environmental depictions. The novel is a new high point in the author's work * Dansk BiblioteksCenter (DK) *
Dorthe Nors's novel Range from last year, set in a parallel, dark version of Jutland, generated every kind of suspense imaginable - both crackling and heavy - through and out of the darkness itself, without lapsing into crime fiction * — Weekendavisen (DK) *
The language is in a class of its own * Bokblogger.dk (DK) *
Dorthe Nors is an international name in a class of her own, and her publications are therefore eagerly awaited - this one is no exception * Kulturkapellet (DK) *
This story is meaningful. Especially for those who wonder about their own fate and the meaning of life . . . Much to ponder, clear-sighted, and humane * Ölandsbladet (SE) *
Profound, thoughtful, and vast about space! * Femina (SE) *
At its best, it's a novel that crackles in the darkness - with longing, tension, and existential pangs of galactic proportions. Not least, it's a novel that smells of earth and potatoes, of damp and decay, and that keeps lighting up in small windows in the dark - and in slightly larger starlit gaps in the sky * Klassekampen (NO) *
Denmark has quietly become a powerhouse of European literature in recent years, thanks to the likes of Olga Ravn, Dorthe Nors and Fine Gråbøl - writers who, though distinctive in style, all share the keenest eye for incidental detail, and gently subvert a range of literary conventions * Telegraph *