by Per Petterson · S Fischer Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783596510733
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«Pferde stehlen» is the novel by Per Petterson, published by S Fischer Verlag GmbH in hardback (334 pages, in German).
Trond, now retired, lives in isolation in eastern Norway until an encounter with a neighbour stirs memories of a summer in 1948. Then, at fifteen, he spent the summer with his father in a cabin near the Swedish border, where an accident in the neighbouring family uncovered the secrets that shaped their relationship and the rest of his life.
The Norwegian original «Ut og stjæle hester» was published in 2003; this German edition uses the translation by Ina Kronenberger.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and Scandinavian narrative: family secrets, memory and father-son relationships.
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.
