Not for me. Boring, unbelievable, and a waste of my time. ( )

A pair of teenagers receive strangers at night while their parents are away. They and the reader are left to try to piece together an explanation of the tensions between the strangers and their strange behaviour. With the focus being on an over-imaginative 14 year-old's perspective and an insomniac night with the strangers, the book successfully manages to convey the otherness and awkwardness without overstepping the line into what in a less able author's work could be a conventional black comedy.

Haunting without being scary, a well-crafted short novel which captures much of what I admire in Norwegian literature. ( )

An unsettling book where very little happens but which lives on in the memory long after you finish reading it. It centres mainly on a 14 yrs old boy and his perceptions of of events over a 24 hr period. During the course of the "Spring Night" there are 5 unexpected visitors to his isolated house, a birth and a death, but these events in themselves hardly impinge on his consciousness and it is his imaginitive interpretation of what is going on that form the core of the novel. At the end little is resolved but the reader is left with a longing to know more and images that seem to hover on the fringes of memory. ( )