Blizzard

“I read the final hundred pages in one sitting, incapable of putting the novel down, and once I close the book it’s like waking up; hard to distinguish dream from reality.

It was just a dream. It was just a novel.

A reaction like that would have to be considered a very good grade.”

DT

“What is it that hooks you once you start reading a novel, hooks you somewhere in the chest? What is it that makes us turn page after page, forgetting everything else as if we were fishes on an actual hook?

In Augustin Erba’s novel BLIZZARD I swallow the bait in the very first scene.”

Dagens Nyheter

“As a reader I long for entering, and remaining in, the truth of the novel. When Augustin Erba is at the pen it is made possible. On his last book, BLOOD BOUND, Lina Kalmteg wrote that ‘Erba is the answer to the many desperate cries for an epic storyteller in Sweden’. It is not hard to concur.”

SvD

“I only have one objection. It’s a shame that Erba chose not to turn this book into a thriller so that he could kill Livli in a particularly drawn out way. He manages to write a sentiment so strong that I want her dead.

Truth is not relevant. A true artist creates things that moves the recipient. This is what Erba does.”

Aftonbladet

"Tomas is betrayed, over and over again. His parents files for a divorce after the death of the baby brother, the father moves to the US and the mother suffers from mental illness, forcing Tomas to live with uncle David. It is a complicated childhood, particularly since David seeks illegal intimacy when he’s feeling alone. Therefore, the University and living on his own makes for a much welcome refuge for Tomas. However, he finds himself being betrayed once more, this time by Livli with whom he falls madly in love. 

BTJ