‘It is hard to do justice to The Ice Palace … The narrative is urgent, the descriptions relentlessly beautiful, the meaning as powerful as the ice piling up on the lake.’ - The Times
‘Vesaas’s laconic sentences are as cold and simple as ice – and as fantastic.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘Believable and haunting … this beautiful neo-prose poem is as sombre and Scandinavian as a Bergman film.’ - Nova