Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson
A man retreats to the forest to understand his father.
you've reached a point in life where you need silence to figure out who you actually are
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Trond is 67, living alone in a remote Norwegian cabin, when an encounter with a neighbor unlocks the summer of 1948 — the last summer with his father, when everything changed. Petterson moves between past and present with extraordinary precision, the Norwegian landscape doing as much narrative work as the characters. A dispatch from inside the specific Norwegian relationship between silence, nature, and the things men don't say to each other. One of the most quietly devastating novels in this catalog.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Norway • Scandinavia
- Voice
- Written by a Norwegian author
- Themes
- Witness
