Iron Lung

'Reading Iron Lung felt like remembering a past life, at once so foreign and familiar. With her lucid, pulsating sentences, as poetic as they are precise, Kirstine Reffstrup pierces a little hole in history and pulls a thin, but shining thread through it: a vital and very moving connection between two distant young children living at the edges of time and normality. The result is a wonderfully singular novel that is both historically rooted and full of queer fabulation, both violent and brimming with a desire for embodiment and connection.' - Jonas Eika, author of After the Sun

'As saturated with colours, sounds, scents, tactile sensations and fantastic imagery as hardly anything else I've read ... Reffstrup's prose is like a magic carpet, delicately woven with the finest threads. 5/6 star.' - Politiken

'A magical story of living in two worlds ... Iron Lung lives and breathes precisely through Reffstrup's sense of style and painterly ability to create literary images. With this novel, she shows her powerful, poetic voice. A writer who isn't afraid to plunge into bold fantasies.' - Dagsavisen

'If you're a good enough writer, you can persuade the reader to accept the most incredible things ... Iron Lung takes us to strange places, exploring different aspects of humanity in poetic, hypnotic, sensuous prose that makes the familiar unfamiliar and brings the eerie close to us.' - NRK