“Rife with beautiful incantatory moments. —New York Times Book Review

“Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting—all shafts of light and clear palpable chill.”—Time

“To Siberia is a darkly beautiful story.” —Los Angeles Times

“Beautifully rendered…a heartbreaking portrait of lost possibilities.”
—Time Out New York

“To Siberia succeeds in one of the greatest aims of fiction, to transport us to another time and place that make us see our world with clearer vision, and to recognize the similarities and differences of human nature, across time and distance.”—Dallas Morning News

“Per Petterson creates a surprising range of effects, from the silvery surfaces of childhood memories to the twilight depths of shadows falling.”—Boston Globe

“Beautiful and moving.”—Seattle Times

“Petterson’s real interest though, is in the physical and emotional distances that separate his characters from eachother and from their former selves…the past and present collide almost violently, and it all sneaks up on you in a way that makes you catch your breath.”
—The New Yorker

“Cast(s) a spell of beauty and devastation…dazzling.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Evocative, haunting.”—Christian Science Monitor

“Like Out Stealing Horses, Petterson’s novel…coaxes readers into a sphere of loneliness with the precise prose and keen intellect of a masterful writer.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“His latest novel does not disappoint.”—Foreword

“Petterson gives his heroine a voice of her own…moving.”—Bookforum

“A spare, lyrical novel from Norwegian author Petterson…that possesses historical breadth and a remarkable sense of immediacy.”
—Kirkus