Samuel was Torfason‘s fourth novel. A best seller in Iceland, went all the way up to fourth place on the best seller list. The book was nominated to The Icelandic Literature Prize and got great reviews. A critic for DV newspaper in Iceland said the book was fantastically well written, thought and plotted. Samuel is out in both Denmark and Finland and was very well recieved over there.

"Totally brilliant!"
- Susanna Svavarsdottir, Channel 2