"Inger Bråtveit opens a gleaming window on literature and life."

December 10 2018

Inger Bråtveit opens a gleaming window on literature and life, says Jan Askelund in Stavanger Aftenblad and praises The Art of Swimming with a wonderful reading of this strong and ambitious novel.

Inger’s author – colleague, Hanne Ørsavik says: This is world literature. Today I’vre read the strongest, finest, wisest most beautiful novel in years.

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