Press
"Laila
Ingrid Rasmussen reconstructs the old Nansen Street neighborhood of
Copenhagen in a great, imaginative novel … a mighty poem in praise of
life depicted in all its diversity, from the smallest cell’s DNA to the
entire universe and its galaxies … Rasmussen has a talent for assembling
weighty issues in a mighty, interpretive grip … The Star is not a novel
that awakens emotions, in spite of its subject matter. But its
invocative power makes quite an impression. A father must be a hero;
life must be a gift. Life is immense."
- MAY SCHACK, POLITIKEN
"You smile, giggle, chuckle – yes, in reality you laugh like crazy –
once you get into Laila Ingrid Rasmussen’s new novel The Star. There is
foolish chatter, quick repartee, life, and happy days when she reaches
back in remembrance and envelops her family history from Copenhagen in
the 1950’s and ’60’s … A colorful and beguiling novel, the reading of
which will simply make you enormously happy."
- LEON JAURNOW, KRISTELIGT
DAGBLAD
"Laila Ingrid Rasmussen’s The Star is a strange and stirring book -
half novel and half prose poem. It is a story that is just as
heart-rending or commonplace as the lyrics to a slushily sentimental pop
tune. Still, this simple narrative is told in a language that is
grippingly lyrical, allowing even the most banal events to appear as a
link in a cosmic drama … it is quite unusual."
- KNUD BJARNE GJESING, FYNS
STIFTSTIDENDE
"Flat-out
wonderful … the most resilient, life-confirming Danish publication in a
long time."
- SISSEL-JO GAZAN, COSTUME
”Reading The Star was like listening to a literary symphony with a
bewitching sound such as I’ve never experienced in my long life as a
reader … She has a story for which she’s ready to give her life to tell
us. There’s a pulse beating through this book from a heart that never
grows cold.”
-
ANNE MARIE LØN
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