“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
“Makes you catch your breath.”—THE NEW YORKER
In this exquisite novel, Per Petterson explores a life that is outwardly barren but sharply etched, charged with meaning. Readers and critics will find here the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses, a literary sensation of 2007.
A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Their parents’ neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. “Sistermine” dreams of escaping to Siberia, for “skies that were cold and clear, where it was easy to breathe and easy to see for long distances.” But Siberia seems increasingly distant as she helplessly watches her brother become increasingly involved in resisting the Nazis.
PRAISE FOR OUT STEALING HORSES:
“Petterson’s spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force.”—THE NEW YORKER
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Out Stealing Horses is as still and smooth and strong as a good liquor, and you feel its sad warmth long after.”
—L.A. WEEKLY
“A subtle, richly wrought, and tough-minded novel, one that Knut Hamsun himself would not have spurned.”
—THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
