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May 2008
On Sale: April 28, 2008
238 pages
ISBN: 0312427085
EAN: 9780312427085
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Fiction Family Life
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. An early
morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised
and puzzled by his friend Jon’s sudden breakdown. The
tragedy that lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for
the two boys’ families to gradually fall apart. 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.
Per Petterson, defeated eight finalists, including Julian
Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy to
win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out
Stealing Horses.
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