by Per Petterson · ISBN 9783596175185
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In 'Pferde stehlen', Per Petterson immerses us in a story of memories and reunions. A man reflects on his past, marked by loss and difficult decisions, as he confronts the ghosts of his youth in a rural and melancholic setting. The novel explores themes of memory, family, and the search for meaning in life.
Per Petterson is a Norwegian novelist. His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (1987), a collection of short stories. He has since published a number of novels with good reviews. To Siberia (1996), set in the Second World War, was published in English in 1998 and nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. I kjølvannet, translated as In the Wake (2002), is a young man's story of losing his family in the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990 ; it won the Brage Prize for 2000. His 2008 novel Jeg forbanner tidens elv won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2009, with an English translation published in 2010.
