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Zusatztext "A piercing story of a girl who responds to trauma by mustering the most powerful weapon available to her: silence. (...) melodic, mythological, transformative, a testament to literature’s powers..." — Vanity Fair “…a taut portrait of how difficult it can be to reconcile ideals about faith and family with their messier realities. An intense, recursive book that evokes the chill despair of a Bergman film.” — Kirkus Reviews "The narrative is borderline stream-of-consciousness, with hallucinations mingling with reality, forcing readers to constantly question what they are told. Knausgård is an impressive writer, and she has created a unique, powerful lead in a world all her own." — Publishers Weekly "In striking prose, Knausgård examines the power of silence and the complicated reality of family. A singular and thought-provoking story with a child narrator you won’t soon forget. I look forward to Knausgård‘s next book!" — Bookriot " Welcome to America is a slim, beautiful act of grace, a novel that moves easily through the shadows and patches of light within its characters, through truths half-glimpsed and barely acknowledged. It will remind readers of the intimate force of Ingmar Bergman’s films, secrets and lies in close focus, haunting and desperately true.” — Robert J Wiersema for The Toronto Star "Sparse, sleek and exacting...[Boström Knausgård] provides a haunting and evocative portrait of the process of trauma and the awareness of personal isolationism, even within the structures of faith and family." —Alice Martin for Shelf Awareness "Boström Knausgård’s careful exploration of mental illness is restrained and entirely unsentimental. She passes no judgment on her characters, whose pain she reveals through Ellen’s musings. Her prose is unobtrusive in its simplicity and minimalism. The result is both powerful and lyrical, qualities beautifully rendered by translator Martin Aitken’s concise, pared-down English text." —Deborah Bragan-Turner for Words Without Borders "Knausgård’s novel...gives voice to the uncontrollable, horrifying aspects of growing up. Ellen doesn’t quite understand why her life force might be so compromised, but she does find power, pride, and a kind of freedom in her silence. Readers familiar with Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical My Struggle series will recognize Linda Boström as its author’s ex-wife, adding further intrigue to this quietly bold tale of familial terror and love."— Annie Bostrom, Booklist "Knausgård’s story of a family in crisis is shocking and imaginative. Everything is written in beautiful and sparse prose which suggests that, after all, from darkness comes light." — Jury, August Prize "Knausgård’s artistry is masterful." — Bookslut “With each sentence of her novella, Knausgaard gives a spare and poetic accounting of her narrator’s silent days…Together, they mark something quite lovely.” —Catherine Holmes, The Charleston Post and Courier " Welcome to America presents itself as an étude in the musical sense of the term: a basic theme that varies to infinity, acquiring with each new variation a new unprecedented facet. A triumph." — Le Monde "The incandescent Welcome to America allows one to discover the author’s vibrant and powerful universe." — Lire "Gets you in the gut. A delirious dance." — L’Alsace Quotidien "A tender novel about a mute girl: gentle, sensitive, minimal, concise, subtle, and brutal. This is writing as self-defense and liberation." —Volker Weidermann for Spiegel "A daring and disturbing novel. One will not soon forget the eleven-year-old narrator and her silence." —MDR Kultur "In her slim book, Boström Knausgård conjures a constel...
