Entrance

Poignant on the subject of being the mother to a child who will never be able to fend for himself. And above all, original on what it means to be human.

In concise, cogent language, we come into close contact with the mother's experiences and emotions, and we take it all in: endless joy for the child, the deep sorrow and despair, the anxiety and shame – a whole gamut captured in a mini-novel that has no space for superficial sentimentality, only deep humanity.

There seems to be no way out in Entrance, a fascinating and disquieting novel that is not easy to be done with.

Just as Cage invites the audience to listen to each other rather than to the music, Entré invites the reader to focus on what is around us, what is ‘normal’ – a category with limitations, beyond which some of us will always end up. /.../ Gabrielsen broaches the topic by way of a literary language that invites us to pose new questions.