Reviews
“… a stylish and surreal picture book… line drawings combined with a minimal use of colour lends the book a stylish and elegant appearance. The book looks much like a graphic novel, where each spread resembles an enlarged comic book square. With few details, attention is drawn towards simple points on each page, making the story quick to read and easy to understand for readers young and old. At the same time it raises a whole host of questions, both concrete and abstract, and invites several perusals. It is fortunate that the pages are sturdy – this is a book that will quickly become well-thumbed.”
DAGBLADET

“Quite simply masterful work, once again.”
HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD

“The text is short, but the illustrations surrounding the hole make the book dynamic. The book encourages discussions relating to the illustrations and the hole, and it can be read many times!”
FREDRIKSTAD BLAD

“Humorous and imaginative. It will entertain people from the age of 3 to the age of 100. … This is a delightful play with reality and imagination. … What is brilliant about this book is the idea of the hole, which remains at the same place, but still appears to move around.”
VÅRT LAND

“A charming and ingenious children’s book that is similarly sure to charm mums and dads.”
DAGSAVISEN

"Off-the-wall (so to speak) and seriously fun, this story is one to give a child of any age for exploring and pondering."
Kirkus Reviews

"With its moody line drawings, sly humor, and witty use of the hole in each page (when it’s not a hole, it’s a streetlight, balloon, nostril, etc.), Torseter’s story amuses, provokes, and leaves readers wishing for more."
Publishers Weekly

“I got (The Hole) when my daughter was just two, and we read it then and still read it now. A creature moving into a new apartment discovers a hole which keeps moving, which he can’t manage to understand or get rid of, but which he eventually accommodates as a moon, as a light. I assume every adult knows about these absences with which we have to make a measured peace.”
Rivka Galchen

"This Norwegian import is an almost-wordless picture book that will surprise and delight. (...) Entirely playful and a truly wondrous look at the world, this book will have you reading it again right away."
Tasha Saecker, Waking Brain Cells

"For a humorous demonstration of how a little thing can have big implications, look no further than ‘The Hole,’ by Norwegian writer and illustrator Oyvind Torseter. This stylish book has a single small hole drilled all the way through its middle, which brings readers in on the joke from the beginning... (...) (a) curiously affecting story."
Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal

“The story of a lovable protagonist who wakes up one day and discovers a mysterious hole in his apartment, which moves and seems to have a mind of its own. Befuddled, he looks for its origin―in vain. He packs it in a box and takes it to a lab, but still no explanation.”
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“This is an extraordinary book that will have kids boggled and intrigued, and adults thinking. Delectable free-form sketches and monochromatic colour make it visual splendour for any reader. Wonderful stuff.”
The Kids’ Book Review

”Another gem published by Enchanted Lion Books, this may be one of may all-time-favorite books. Period. (…) A tiny bit of negative space drives a story full of metaphysical questions, funny interactions, and brilliant visuals.”
Lisa Zaretsky, @playagainreads