‘A rebellious celebration of the singularity, and mystery of humankind. We need more fiction like Nors’s’ CHARLOTTE WOOD, NEW YORK TIMES

From the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Mirror, Shoulder, Signal.

Celebrated professor of astrophysics, Gunn Haven, has often found people stranger and more frightening than space. Back in the rural landscape of her childhood, she sets out with a thermos of coffee in her rucksack and a telescope trained on the night sky, to study celestial bodies, only to find herself pulled back into earthly lives.

Glowing orbs drift down her garden path, revealing themselves as inquisitive neighbours. Her phone buzzes not with satellite signals, but with messages from her much-missed young protégée. And then there is the Gable Woman: a local adversary, enraged after catching Gunn on private property, whose determination to settle the score grows more menacing by the day.

Atmospheric and intellectually expansive, Range explores the inexorable forces that at once draw us towards one another, and send us spinning away.

PRAISE FOR DORTHE NORS:

‘Nors’ writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master’ CHRIS KRAUS

‘Reading Nors’s work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living’ YIYUN LI

‘A singular prose stylist. . . she is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising’ MAX PORTER

‘It’s a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors’ LAUREN GROFF

‘A writer of moments – quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation’ THE PARIS REVIEW

‘A brilliant novel that is as intellectually vast as it is deeply rooted in the everyday experience of being human’KIRKUS

Reviews

A luminous novel of isolation and yearning beneath the stars . . In an era when all language is subject to relentless algorithmic flattening, when books are so often rewarded for easy comprehension and bland sentiment, Range is a rebellious celebration of the singularity, and mystery, of humankind. We need more fiction like Nors’s

Charlotte Wood, NYT

Part of a compelling current wave of work from Danish female writers. . . with passages that meld the prosaic and the poetic in a single paragraph. . . [Waight] captures the full range of the author’s style; the lightness, the touches of implication, the flashes of artful lyricism. . . Much of the novel’s strangeness – and oblique insight – comes from Gunn’s position as an outsider; she is a misfit, more at home in the predictability of scientific data than in the messy terrestrial matters of human connection

Range is primarily a story of splits: of social class; of geography; of the often arbitrary division between intellectual and vocational labour; of the conceptual gap between words and numbers. History is the key to this layered, challenging and deftly written novel.

Telegraph

Nors’ writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master

Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

Reading Nors’s work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living

Yiyun Li, author of Things in Nature Merely Grow

A singular prose stylist. . . she is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising

Max Porter, author of Shy

It’s a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors

Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

A writer of moments – quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic

Paris Review

After an astrophysics professor craving solitude moves to a sparsely populated rural area, she finds it’s harder to get away from other people than she thought

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An astrophysicist retreats into the forest for solitude and dark skies only to find herself uneasily surveilled by her neighbors in Nors’s intriguing latest

Publishers Weekly

Nors can’t help but handle words in interesting ways and put them to original uses. . . If her subject is unwavering, her style remains restless, less out of a desire to be “experimental” than out of playfulness and a genuine yearning, one feels, for contact and connection

New York Times

Nors has found her own space away from Copenhagen’s literati. . . Her words whip along, each idea cascading into the next: it’s like having a window into someone’s thoughts

Independent

Nor’s tender, touching, deeply heartfelt novel gets right to the lonely, messy, beautiful core of what it is to be human

Marie Claire

As ‘the stars stand still’ and ‘the planets wander,’ a secluded astrophysicist accepts the solace of found family in the affecting novel Range

Foreword Reviews

A modern classic in the making

Göteborgs-Posten (SE)

A formidable novel that gives food for thought to the right reader. It should be read slowly to take
in everything – the said, the unsaid, and the implied. It is beautifully written in both character and
environmental depictions. The novel is a new high point in the author’s work

Dansk BiblioteksCenter (DK)

Dorthe Nors’s novel Range from last year, set in a parallel, dark version of Jutland, generated every
kind of suspense imaginable – both crackling and heavy – through and out of the darkness itself,
without lapsing into crime fiction

— Weekendavisen (DK)

The language is in a class of its own

Bokblogger.dk (DK)

Dorthe Nors is an international name in a class of her own, and her publications are therefore eagerly awaited – this one is no exception

Kulturkapellet (DK)

This story is meaningful. Especially for those who wonder about their own fate and the meaning of life . . . Much to ponder, clear-sighted, and humane

Ölandsbladet (SE)

Profound, thoughtful, and vast about space!

Femina (SE)

At its best, it’s a novel that crackles in the darkness – with longing, tension, and existential pangs of galactic proportions. Not least, it’s a novel that smells of earth and potatoes, of damp and decay, and that keeps lighting up in small windows in the dark – and in slightly larger starlit gaps in the sky

Klassekampen (NO)

Denmark has quietly become a powerhouse of European literature in recent years, thanks to the likes of Olga Ravn, Dorthe Nors and Fine Gråbøl – writers who, though distinctive in style, all share the keenest eye for incidental detail, and gently subvert a range of literary conventions

Telegraph