NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
"Everything merges into a single pulse":
There are many lessons in this book. For instance, whether it is intentional or not, Per Petterson has captured the rhythm, synergy, and energy that results from true teamwork. "We started in the morning just after seven and kept on until evening when we fell into bed and slept like the dead until we woke with the light and went at it again. For a time it looked as if we would never get to the end of those trees, because you can walk along a path and think that what is around you is a nice little wood,... more info
I recommend and that is unusual:
This is the second novel I have read in the past 8 months..the first was cellist of......
I found this hard to put down, i found myself thinking about it during the day. I found myself craving for time to read..when I was supposed to be working, driving, sleeping. i made myself put this book down because it is like chocolat, if you do not take the time to savor every morsel, you may as well not bother to eat it.
This book is well worth savoring,,,,every chapter,,every sentence,,every word..I... more info
Loss and recovery; hurt and compensation; pain and survival:
Per Petterson is a subtle and sensitive storyteller. In his novel Out Stealing Horses, he uses a post-modern shifting of time between a young man on the verge of adulthood and the same man more than 50 years later, with only vague hints as to life lived between that eventful adolescence and the onset of an old age seeking isolation. In the novel, Trond is seen as a young man becoming sexually aware, but also strongly attached to his best friend Jon and to his virile, action oriented father. Much of his... more info
A Book I Read Slowly:
I don't read as much as I would like and that is usually my fault. Sometimes it is the book's fault for not pulling me in. This one had no trouble and the sparse prose is perfectly descriptive of the state of mind of both the man and boy in this novel. I felt I could almost smell the air in the book with barely a word to describe it, but somehow it comes across. The writing is simple yet leaves you touched by this character's experience. It is like wandering into a room you used to inhabit as a child. You... more info
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