RaveThe Denver PostThe novel’s plot, like its language and style, is deceptively straightforward; its setting, the rustic, unpopulated countryside in eastern Norway, is elementary and natural; its narrator, 67-year- old Trond, is as uncomplicated as the antithesis to a homicidal maniac or smooth-talking romantic alpha-male can be … Violence, action, tussles with the elements and personal challenges mark the pages, yet we are not learning about a Hemingway-esque hero or even an anti-hero, but rather an ordinary male who also happens to be wonderfully human.
