Out Stealing Horses

from lit_chick

"All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did. I can say that much. That it often did. I have been lucky. But even then for instance in the middle of an embrace and someone whispering words in my ear I wanted to hear, I could sud...

from vancouverdeb

I thoroughly enjoyed Out Stealing Horses. It's the Norwegian based story of a teenaged boy,Trond, living with his father for a summer in a small cabin in a remote area. His father has had difficulty adapting to family and village life after serving in WW11, and so has left son Trond's mother and ...

from Laura400

This is an absolutely wonderful novel. Though written originally in Norwegian, the English translation seems excellent, with the prose elegant and spare. It touches on the mysteries of growing up, the distance and yearning between a boy and his father, between any family members, really, even the...

from mrstreme

I love novels that quietly leave their mark, telling their story as a whisper and slowly drawing you in like a boat returning from sea. That's how I would describe Per Petterson's beautiful story, Out Stealing Horses. Quite simply, it was a breath-taking and enthralling book. Trond Sander moved t...

from Mikalina

"Out stealing horses" is the code the storyteller`s (Trond) father (Jacob) and the mother of Trond´s best friend, Jon, used during WW II. They smuggled Jews over the border from the German-invaded Norway to neutral Sweden. At the end of the war, their cover was blown, and Trond´s father and Jon´s...