Celebrated professor of astrophysics, Gunn Haven, has often found people stranger and more frightening than space. Back in the rural landscape of her childhood, she sets out with a thermos of coffee in her rucksack and a telescope trained on the night sky, to study celestial bodies, only to find herself pulled back into earthly lives.Glowing orbs drift down her garden path, revealing themselves as inquisitive neighbours. Her phone buzzes not with satellite signals, but with messages from her much-missed young protégée. And then there is the Gable Woman: a local adversary, enraged after catching Gunn on private property, whose determination to settle the score grows more menacing by the day.Atmospheric and intellectually expansive, Range explores the inexorable forces that at once draw us towards one another, and send us spinning away.



Dorthe Nors is the author of the story collections Wild Swims and Karate Chop; four novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize; and two novellas, collected in So Much for That Winter. She lives in Denmark.



Nors' writing creeps up on you, and then overwhelms with its emotional power. She is a master



Reading Nors's work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living



A singular prose stylist. . . she is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising



It's a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors



A writer of moments - quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic



Nors can't help but handle words in interesting ways and put them to original uses. . . If her subject is unwavering, her style remains restless, less out of a desire to be "experimental" than out of playfulness and a genuine yearning, one feels, for contact and connection



Nors has found her own space away from Copenhagen's literati. . . Her words whip along, each idea cascading into the next: it's like having a window into someone's thoughts



After an astrophysics professor craving solitude moves to a sparsely populated rural area, she finds it's harder to get away from other people than she thought



As 'the stars stand still' and 'the planets wander,' a secluded astrophysicist accepts the solace of found family in the affecting novel Range



A modern classic in the making



A formidable novel that gives food for thought to the right reader. It should be read slowly to take in everything - the said, the unsaid, and the implied. It is beautifully written in both character and environmental depictions. The novel is a new high point in the author's work



Dorthe Nors's novel Range from last year, set in a parallel, dark version of Jutland, generated every kind of suspense imaginable - both crackling and heavy - through and out of the darkness itself, without lapsing into crime fiction



The language is in a class of its own



Dorthe Nors is an international name in a class of her own, and her publications are therefore eagerly awaited - this one is no exception



This story is meaningful. Especially for those who wonder about their own fate and the meaning of life . . . Much to ponder, clear-sighted, and humane



Profound, thoughtful, and vast about space!



At its best, it's a novel that crackles in the darkness - with longing, tension, and existential pangs of galactic proportions. Not least, it's a novel that smells of earth and potatoes, of damp and decay, and that keeps lighting up in small windows in the dark - and in slightly larger starlit gaps in the sky



Denmark has quietly become a powerhouse of European literature in recent years, thanks to the likes of Olga Ravn, Dorthe Nors and Fine Gråbøl - writers who, though distinctive in style, all share the keenest eye for incidental detail, and gently subvert a range of literary conventions