Money to Burn

Nordenhof’s first novel isn’t like others. That’s one of the reasons why Money to Burn sets the bar so unbelievably high for the coming volumes of what can already be dubbed the most ambitious literary project of the 2020s

Jyllands-Posten

How do you write a social-realistic, political novel about capitalism in the 21st century? This is how you do it!

Politiken

Unbelievably good. I can’t think of anyone apart from Kristen Thorup, who in the last decades has written so compassionately and vividly and at the same time so unsentimental about people on the fringes of the wealthy lives of the welfare state

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Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature

Dag og Tid

Nordenhof's writing crackles with indignation, conviction, ferocious wit, and savvy human insight. Startling, irresistible, and thoroughly enlivening, reading her words is not unlike looking at the entrancing flames of a tremendous fire

Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19

A comet in Scandinavian literature. Her sentences are like lightning, they hold great beauty and destruction. Funny, furious and masterful – Money to Burn is a declaration of war against capitalism

Olga Ravn, author of My Work

Money to Burn is direct and full of fervour. I loved how fast it makes it moves and how much grandeur it achieves. I need the next instalment desperately

Adam Thirlwell, author of The Future Future

It contains both the scale of a grand epic with the careful and clarified language of a Claire Keegan novel. So rich in its storytelling, sense of place and characterisation that even in its darkest moments it's impossible to look away [...] Entirely intoxicating and compulsive, this is a story in the hands of an utterly remarkable writer, and has me very much desperate to read more. Perfect

Ore Agbaje-Williams

Money to Burn is ambitious in its structure and narrative, but Nordenhof carries it off with ease. Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way

Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground

Taut and intelligent prose… there's no doubt about Money to Burn: somehow, Nordenhof has managed to write a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society

Literary Review

Into the narrow field of Scandinavian multi-decker novels – populated by Jon Fosse and Karl Ove Knausgård – strides a new star... Buzzes with electricity… It’s intriguing, it’s maddening, it’s exciting. I’m in

Observer

What blew me away was how — with its shard-like chapters — Money to Burn renders not only the inner lives of the married couple at the centre of the story with truth and depth, but something of the texture of their individual existence, their ways of being in the world, together and apart. Nordenhof’s writing is electrifying.

Chetna Maroo