These Moments

With These Moments Wassmo has written a brave and passionate story - about the life of a writer, a woman, a human being.

Well written, well-shaped, unscrupulously honest [..] The lines sing, the description is driven forward by the characters in short, tense scenes.

The sensibility is not something external the writer forces down on herself or her writing, but an engine, or an inner force that lifts the sentences from a well-thought-out to a well-felt-out sphere. These lines haven't been through Wassmo's head before appearing on paper, they have been through all of her body [...] Wassmo does not lecture us. Life isn't evaluated or explained. It is told. That's Wassmo's gift as a story-teller

Herbjørg Wassmo's autobiographic novel is a vivid and intense story about escaping the intense grasps of grief, and to use one's inner fierce to create a life and a career as a writer for oneself.

In These Moments Hebjørg Wassmo outstands herself, and you can probably not find a more elegant way reconcile with your own life.

The story of the main character's developement is [...] also a story of liberation, and a portrait of the birth of an author. In that way the novel is spectacular. And as a collection of reminiscences, it an't get any better than this.