Johan Harstad’s novel, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? has been named one of Kirkus Review’s best fiction books of 2011.

Kirkus’ reviewers described Harstad’s novel as, ‘the long-awaited Great Faroese Novel: a splendid confusion about life, love and intrigues in the land of the midnight sun…A modern saga of rocketships, ice floes and dreams of the Caribbean, and great fun to read.’

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Norwegian sensation Johan Harstad is a guest of the 2012 Perth Writers Festival, and is one of the four international authors featured in the Feast of Words event on Saturday 25 February.