Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical novel"; this is a more subtle thing, and I thought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka.
Alan Warner
Mattson produces some astonishing bursts of language, the most tangible sensations and more than a few resonant ideas.
Guardian
A subtle, delicate novel... Mattson's powerful descriptive prose concerns itself with the unquenchable human lust for the warmth hidden beneath the icy cold banalities of everyday life.
Glasgow Herald
Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical novel"; this is a more subtle thing, and I thought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka.
Alan Warner
Mattson produces some astonishing bursts of language, the most tangible sensations and more than a few resonant ideas.
Guardian
A subtle, delicate novel... Mattson's powerful descriptive prose concerns itself with the unquenchable human lust for the warmth hidden beneath the icy cold banalities of everyday life.
Glasgow Herald
Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical novel"; this is a more subtle thing, and I thought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka.
Alan Warner
Mattson produces some astonishing bursts of language, the most tangible sensations and more than a few resonant ideas.
Guardian
A subtle, delicate novel... Mattson's powerful descriptive prose concerns itself with the unquenchable human lust for the warmth hidden beneath the icy cold banalities of everyday life.