by Per Petterson · B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788498723496
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«Salir a robar caballos» is the coming-of-age novel by Per Petterson, published by B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B) in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Trond Sender, a sixty-seven-year-old Norwegian, lives isolated in a forest house near the Swedish border. Recalling the summer of 1948, at fifteen he discovers the secret relationship between his father and his best friend's mother, and his father's past in the resistance against the Nazis; the awakening of desire and death shatter family harmony.
Originally published in Norwegian as «Ut og stjæle hester» in 2003, it won the IMPAC Dublin Award 2007 and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2006. Translation by Cristina Gómez Baggethun.
For readers of literary fiction, coming-of-age novels, and Scandinavian narrative, with an interest in memory and family relationships.
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.
