2017 · 240 pp
I Refuse to Think
Lotta Elstad
I Refuse to Think has much of the same sharp and smart humour of her earlier books. We meet Hedda Møller after a traumatic plane landing and hazardous journey back to Oslo, through a Europe in crisis, on buses and trains, dirty hostel rooms and a one-night stand in Berlin that will not stop sending her messages in CAPS LOCK. Back home she discovers that she is unwantedly pregnant. That should be an easily solved problem. It´s not. I Refuse to Think is a dark, feministic contemporary comedy about politics, love – and an abyss that is getting dangerously closer.Feminist direct hit!STAVANGER AFTENBLAD - SIX OUT OF SIX STARSLotta Elstads energy, wittiness and precision makes I Refuse to Think to one of this years most enjoyable reads. Within it´s comical genre, it is absolutely perfect; stimulating, exciting, funny, sharp – and somewhat dark.FÆDRELANDSVENNEN - SIX OUT OF SIX STARSLotta Elstad has written a novel that is funny, even if it is political. Elstad writes with energy and good timing. The suspense lasts until the last chapter.DAGSAVISENLotta Elstad creates observing and fresh comedy out of the unwanted pregnancy of a freelancer. There has not been a lot of room for the easy going in Norwegian contemporary literature. Lotta Elstad clears the space for this kind of writing. That is why it is so easy to let yourself be excited by her novels.MORGENBLADETI refuse to think is a Sareptas Jar of a book; energetic, cheeky and daring. But under the cheekiness there are thoughts about work-life, housing, health and the difference between Norway and the rest of Europe.KLASSEKAMPENYou would not think it possible to write a funny novel about the right to have an abortion, but Lotta Elstad does. Elstad also has a feministic agenda. But instead of making the woman the weaker party, she makes her into a headstrong, feisty and fantastic figure. It is the author’s oral and fast style that makes this great entertainment.AFTENPOSTENIf you are going to read a book that in a light satirical way deals with heavy issues regarding the right to decide over your own body, then let it be Lotta Elstad - a witty, engaged and intellectual writer.BLAElstad writes in a style that is close to a feisty essay just as much as the good story. Elstad might provoke, but she also points to the consequences of a societal development that we can not refuse to consider. And it helps to laugh about it.DAG OG TID
