Money to Burn

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 *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 *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 19A 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 WorkMoney 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 GroundWhat 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 MarooMoney 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 FutureIt 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-WilliamsUnbelievably 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 * Information *Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature * Dag og Tid *

Asta Olivia Nordenhof (Author)

Asta Olivia Nordenhof is an award-winning poet and author. Money to Burn, the first book in the Scandinavian Star septology, was first published in Denmark in 2020. It was awarded the PO Enquist Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. An international sensation and translated into eighteen languages, Money to Burn was published in English by Jonathan Cape. The Devil Book is the second in the series and was an instant bestseller upon first publication in Denmark.

Caroline Waight (Translator)

Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German and Norwegian. Her translations include books by Caroline Albertine Minor, Ingvild Rish i, Maren Uthaug and Dorthe Nors. She was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Award and received a special commendation at the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.