Out Stealing Horses
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Year
2019
Publisher
Country
United States
Pages
264
ISBN
9781555978440
A bestseller and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, now in paperback from Graywolf Press for the first time We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.— Google Books
Press Reviews
- The Guardianby Ian Thomson · Dec 2005
<p>Ian Thomson finds iron-clad and chill fjords in a fine anthology of Norwegian fiction and Per Petterson's latest novel, Out Stealing Horses.</p>
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