Press
”Laila Ingrid Rasmussen
is back with musical, meticulous glimpses of moods from a lost childhood
… Little by little the 19 short stories gather into a musical narrative
about a girl’s mind, a working-class milieu and a family’s psychology …
Many fine notations laid side by side and layer by layer, neatly akin
and provided with small intimations.”
- LISE
GARSDAL, POLITIKEN
”The art of reminiscence in the tradition of Tove Ditlevsen*, but with a
more dynamic language … Her best book, so far.”
*famous Danish author
- JOHN
CHRISTIAN JØRGENSEN, EKSTRA BLADET
”Authentic … amusing and enthralling … Everything is described via the
senses with an atmosphere all of its own … Most of the stories end by
making a distinct point that humorously sums up their content. Laila
Ingrid Rasmussen makes use the memoir’s ability to provide a kind of
distance in order to reveal the larger picture. Thus the voice of a
child and the overview of an adult merge in a very entertaining fashion.”
- HENRIETTE
BACHER LIND, JYLLANDS-POSTEN
”Perceptive short stories in remembrance of childhood … Realities that
Laila Ingrid Rasmussen does a noble job of making intimate via her
eminent ability to (re)create a child’s perspective with its wonderment,
anxiety, distortions and games, at the same time lifting them out of
concrete situations to indicate something greater and more universal.”
- PER KROGH HANSEN,
BERLINGSKE TIDENDE
”There is a devil-may-care, humorous tone in many of the short stories.
Others are told with a first-person self-absorption in life’s major
problems, giving them depth and a tinge of existentialism … Using a
strict, pointed style, Laila Ingrid Rasmussen is able to give a poetic
and realistic portrayal of a typical working-class environment of forty
years ago and at the same time draw a portrait of a very particular girl,
imaginative and full of life, who also has her eyes wide open on the
road to adulthood.”
- VIBEKE
BLAKSTEEN, KRISTELIGT DAGBLAD
”The short stories are very perceptive … humorously told. In a very
precise way, the author masters the portrayal of a child’s boundless
anxiety and grief, as well as utter joy.”
- NANNA
KNUDSEN, ROMANSIDEN.DK
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