by Per Petterson · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099506133
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«Out Stealing Horses» is the novel by Per Petterson, published by Vintage Books in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Trond, now old and widowed, lives isolated in a rural area of Norway. An unexpected encounter with someone from his past takes him back to the summer of 1948, when at fifteen he shared a few months with his father in the countryside and lived through experiences that shaped his way of seeing the world. A novel about the loss of innocence, guilt, solitude and memory.
Work translated from Norwegian (original title: «Ut og stjæle hester»). Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and coming-of-age novels, interested in stories set in Norway and in book club works.
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
