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Out Stealing Horses

Per Petterson
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childhood trauma
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contemporary fiction
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family
father and son
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genealogy fiction
grief
guilt
henrik ibsen
historical fiction
isolation
karl ove knausgard
literary fiction
loss
loss of a parent
memory
norway
post apocalyptic fiction
solitude
summer
teenage boy
the family plot
the recollection
the tragic era
viking fiction

Product details

  • ISBN 9780099506133
  • Weight: 206g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jul 2006
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.

**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM**

In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.

As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone.

'One of Norway's finest living writers' Independent

'Deeply atmospheric...a stunning novel' Daily Telegraph
About Per Petterson
Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in forty-nine languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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