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Torseter, Øyvind

The Hole

64 pp. | Enchanted Lion | September, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59270-143-8 $22.95

(2) K-3 Translated by Kari Dickson. Moving into a new apartment, a slim fellow discovers a mysterious hole (die-cut right through the book) that shifts unaccountably around the protagonist's new digs. He telephones a laboratory for help and is advised to bring it in. There's no menace here, just an ordinary bloke coming to accept an extraordinary manifestation. Torseter's spare pen drawings exude a quiet humor.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013