"The best short novel I've read this year. . . . Small, dark, and hard to put down."--Paul LaFarge

"A shaggy-dog story that at times reads like a sort of minor-key, Scandinavian rewrite of an English campus novel: charming, funny and strange in equal parts."--Financial Times

"Delightfully funny and unexpectedly complex, The Pets introduces American readers to a fresh voice and perspective, and provides ample incentive for us to crawl out from under the bed."--L Magazine

"The first adjective that comes to my mind when I think of [Narrator] by Bragi Ólafsson is 'wonderful.'"--Stundin

"Ólafsson's English-language debut is part Beckettian or even Kafkaesque black comedy, part existential novel in the Paul Auster mode, and part locked-room mystery."--Kirkus Reviews