A touching comedy of anxiety, everyday neurosis, cat rearing and male bonding.
Ingvar Ambj rnsen was born in 1956 and is considered one of the most important contemporary Norwegian writers as well as one of the most popular. Alongside his comic series of four Elling novels, he has also written some more literary novels and children's books. He was won several literary prizes in Norway.
'Hilarious ... Told with balance, pace and wit ... This book is
unhesitatingly recommended as a bizarrely ordinary celebration
of friendship, love and adventure against the odds.'
*Independent*
'Ambjornsen creates a gentle, but never saccharine, comedy out of
Elling's tentative engagement with the world beyond the great
indoors. He gives Elling an endearing, childishly direct voice, but
adds an edge of anger that keeps the tone arrestingly
eccentric.'
*Guardian*
'Brilliant.'
*FHM (Best New Fiction)*
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