"The Last Waltz" chosen as a NORLA Selected Title

We are delighted that The Last Waltz by Pedro Carmona-Alvarez has been chosen as one of NORLA’s Selected Titles for this Autumn ! Every six months, NORLA selects Norwegian books of current interest for book fairs and literary events.

Reviewers have had nothing but positive things to say about this 992-page-long epic novel:

“The first colossal highlight of this fall. Pedro Carmona-Alvarez sets the bar for the fall publishing season with a novel of nearly a thousand unforgettable pages. […] The writing is an absolute delight. Carmona-Alvarez conjures up sparkling scenes, charged moments, intimacy and distance. […] I was challenged, exhilarated, knocked sideways, and never bored for a moment. If anything, I read too quickly, lingering only briefly over all the beauty and horror along the way, because the book has both drive and momentum – a genuinely literary thriller.” – Bergens Tidende, 6/6 stars

“The Last Waltz is, quite simply, an existential undertaking. The emotional intensity of Pedro Carmona-Alvarez’s language holds up because it is so firmly rooted in everyday life.” – NRK, 5/6 stars

“…it teems with little stories, long nighttime conversations about what has been and what may yet come, unsavory minor characters, ghost stories, religious reflections, music, poetic images, repetitions and digressions, and much, much more – all of which makes for an exceptionally rich reading experience. […] Carmona-Alvarez’s determination to keep pushing the text forward into new spaces, toward unexpected places, and to treat everything – high and low – with equal gravity means that the trilogy is never in danger of becoming rigid in form or losing its interest.” – Klassekampen

Congratulations, Pedro!