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Hallucinant firecracker, pure icelandic madness, amusing read, well done, incredibly funny …

These are but a few examples from the numerous good reviews since Fathers Big Secret was released in Denmark on 28th may this spring.

Politiken, Denmark's by far most important cultural newspaper brought a review by Steffen Larsen, a well known critic.

Yesterday, on may 28th 2009, the infamous Cannibal children's book, Father’s Big Secret, was published by forlaget Torgard in Copenhagen. The danish translation of Fars store hemmelighed, is by Birgir Thor Møller.

Father’s Big Secret was met with great reviews already on it’s first day in Danish bookstores. The children's books website Fortællingen.dk praises it and begs for more:

"... in other words; Leifsson allows himself to wrap a good deal of serious themes in to wild entertainment without being to serious. He does not preach or become boring (…).

From the sufferings of a Cannibal: New, amusing Theatrium play with excelent actors.

Foto: Hannes FuhrmannParents are embarrassing, all children think. But the father of Sidda and Jonas is not only different - he carries a dark secret with him, for his family to keep. The family father in ”Fathers big secret“ from the book of the same name by Icelandic Thorarinn Leifsson is not normal at all, he is a Cannibal.During the day he snores on the family sofa (It is far to dangerous for his fellow men to let him go to work), at night he rambles through the the city, craving for prey. How long can this go on? What if dad decides to attack his own family? Who is really to be protected from whom?

Thorarinn Leifsson will be at the Leipziger Book Fair to promote the German publication of Fathers Big Secret.
The German name of the book is Papas Geheimnis. He will catch the train to Leipzig on the morning of Friday the 13th. Thorarinn can be reached by mobile +354 6593603 or by email to totil@totil.com.

The program is more or less as follows.

Tuesday the 10th
Theatrium, Leipzig, Sachsen 04205
10:00 AM - Papas Geheimnis - PREMIERE
Reading from the book on stage by local actors.
Thorarinn will be in Berlin.

Friday the 13th
Nordic Forum - at the Fair
13.30-14.00 Hall 4, Stand C304
Hartmut Mittelstädt (Translator), Thorarinn Leifsson (Author)

Program for young readers
17:30 - 18:00 Lesebude 1, Hall 2, Stand G305 / H314
Hartmut Mittelstädt (Translator), Thorarinn Leifsson (Author)

naTo on Friday - Outside the fair, some kind of pub.
20.15-20.45 Thorarinn Leifsson with Audur Jonsdottir as guest.
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46, 04275 Leipzig - www.nato-leipzig.de

The german newspaper Sozialistische Tageszeitung reviewed Fathers Big Secret
in a special Frankfurt Book Fair supplement. The book will be on sale in Germany next week.
Among other things, the review says that the book is unique, a book like this has never been written before, this an unbelievable an disgusting horror tale.

Now when the book launch at Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag in Germany is only a few days away and orders from German speaking web-shops have started to come in, the terrible news of yet another
publisher falling prey to the cannibal come to us. Forlaget Torgard has bought the rights to Father's Big Secret to be published in Denmark next year.

DanceLeipziger Kinderbuchverlag has bought the rights to Father's Big Secret for the German speaking countries. The book has already been translated to German by Doctor Hartmut Mittelstädt in Greifswald and will be in the German bookstores this autumn.

VilmundurThe world Thorarinn Leifsson creates in this book is incredibly entertaining … the book is exciting, funny and original an will certainly be remembered for a long time … this is without question the best Children book I have read in a long time! *****

Berglind Häsler / DV - daily newspaper

FlyingFather's Big Secret came out in the end of October 2007 and sold out the first edition. The book was officially launched in the center of Reykjavik city with an exhibition of 16 selected illustrations from it. This was a successful promotional event which the author aims to repeat when the book is published in other languages.