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Silence in October
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"Jens Christian Grøndahl has written a fine and provocative novel which holds Danish scepticism up to view and takes the pursuit of happiness at its word."
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Lars Handesten in Berlingske Tidende, 1 October 1996
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Silence in October
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"Jens Christian Grøndahl´s ninth novel presents still further variations on those themes which crop up throughout his work: mankind´s journey through time and space, our romantic entanglements, the joys of perception and its blind spots, the power and the impotence of words... The writing style is masterly and quite superb; seriously virulent searingly precise. Grøndahl´s existential romance will ram squarely in the solar plexus of all those who have just once grown faint at the very thought of how little it would take to turn one´s life upside down."
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John Chr. Jørgensen in Ekstra Bladet, 1 October 1996
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Silence in October
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"A quite uncommonly delightful novel… Since making his debut in 1985 Grøndahl has grown, book by book, in artistic scope and authority. Silence in October should represent a major breakthrough for him."
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Knud Bjarne Gjesing in Morgenposten Fyens Stiftstidende, 1 October 1996
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Silence in October
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"A culmination of the literature of the 1990s… Grøndahl is brilliantly in command of his novel. In evenly-paced, abundantly flowing sentences he recounts one story, then another not unlike the first, moving forward, then back, to Copenhagen, Lisbon, Paris, New York – but still, at all times, here and now; the narrative is tightly controlled and the suspense never lets up…Silence in October is one of those novels destined to characterize the nineties."
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Bjørn Bredal in Politiken, 1 October 1996
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Lucca
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"Lucca is a kaleidoscopic story with many tributaries about the conditions and dreams of love in the 1990s. Nothing less. It is absolutely one of the best of its kind; as we know, this does not mean that the reader will be offered an idyllic story. The striking aspect of Jens Christian Grøndahl´s narrative is that it is played out against a distressing background and that it insists on maintaining the gap between people who want with all their hearts to be closer to one another."
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Erik Svendsen in Jyllands-Posten, 5 March 1998
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Lucca
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"...Grøndahl sets the scenes so that we are enthralled and stimulated and he simultaneously, with astonishing accessibility and clarity, twists and turns some very modern mirrors: personas which gradually slip into individualities, rootless role-playing against modernity´s wall of death."
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Bjørn Bredal in Politiken, 5 March 1998
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Lucca
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"It suits Jens Christian Grøndahl to be caustic; out with beating about the bush, out with empathy, short shrift, just now and then. He does it so elegantly, without betraying anyone or compromising the fiction."
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Thomas Thurah in Weekendavisen, 6 March 1998
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