The author himself points out the book's greatest weakness

It is not stated either inside or outside Nikolai Torgersen's debut book Gater jeg har levd that it is a novel. Yet it is being received as just that, so far in Aftenposten, Dagbladet, VG and Vårt Land. In Aftenposten, Ingunn Økland's point of complaint is that the book "loses out on being launched as a novel when it is so clearly an autobiography or what one would call a memoir in English." Despite the fact that Økland is wise to point out the …