Author Per Petterson ISBN Pages Condition Good Format Paperback Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In , fifteen-year-old Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The unexpected events that come to pass alter his life forever. An early morning adventure out steali. A novel beloved by readers the world over, Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses is a “masterpiece of death and delusion in a Nordic land” (The Guardian). At age sixty-seven, Trond has settled in an isolated part of eastern Norway to live out his life in solitude, but a chance encounter with his only neighbor stirs up long-dormant memories. PER PETTERSON won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for the novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into more than thirty languages and was named a Best Book of by The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly. Before publishing his first book, Petterson worked as a bookseller in www.doorway.ru by: 4.
In Per Petterson's OUT STEALING HORSES sixty-seven year old Trond Sander is profoundly drawn to such a place: he leaves Oslo and settles in a remote Whether by personal exposure or when represented in paintings, music or literature, the vastness of space, rugged coastlines, deep dark forests and, above all, the crystal clear colours brought on. How do you think Trond's perception of his father would have changed if his father had told the story himself? Out Stealing Horses. by Per Petterson. Publication Date: Ap. Paperback: pages. Publisher: Picador. ISBN ISBN No doubt Out Stealing Horses has been reviewed thus: Too many long sentences. Or, to put it another way, Who does he think he is, anyway, this Per Petterson, with his immodestly large sentences that have no inkling when to end, no brakes, no sensitivity to the situation of the poor reader who has drawn the most enormous amount of oxygen into their lungs, sucking it in until fit to burst, face.
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 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. Out Stealing Horses (Norwegian: Ut og stjæle hester) is a Norwegian novel by Per Petterson. It was translated into English in by Anne Born, published in the UK that year, and in the US in Among other awards it won the Dublin IMPAC Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world. Out Stealing Horses (), by Norwegian author Per Petterson, follows an older man’s meditations on and acceptance of his past life and future death. The most recent English translation is by Anne Born and the novel won high praise from The New York Times and The New Yorker. It also won the IMPAC award, which comes with a cash award of , dollars.
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