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1.Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by: Per Petterson April 29, 2008
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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 life, especially his youth, is highly influenced by a series of events that occur around World War II in which a terrible accident at a neighbor's home leads to the loss of his best friend Jon and eventually to the abandonment of his family by his father for a neighbor's wife. Read More

2.To Siberia: A Novel by: Per Petterson September 30, 2008
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This is one of those spare little novels that you read in a couple hours, and then it stays with you a while...like, forever. The setting is beautifully invoked- you can hear gulls cry and feel the cutting wind off the sea. The unnamed heroin is an unforgetable character- part plucky kid sister "Littless" from Hemmingway's Nick Adams stories, part Mersault from "The Stranger", and a good bit of Scout Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (but imagine Scout older, wised-up, and struggling to deal with MUCH more complicated feelings for her brother) By the close, male readers will wish they could insinuate their way into the pages, and take a shot at rescuing "Sistermine" from herself. But, it's hopeless- she's found Siberia all right. A bleak, haunting story of love and loss.

3.In the Wake: A Novel by: Per Petterson April 17, 2007
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

4.Im Kielwasser by: Per Petterson February 28, 2007
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

5.Pferde stehlen by: Per Petterson February 28, 2006
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

6.Sehnsucht nach Sibirien. by: Per Petterson February 01, 2002
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

7.Out Stealing Horses by: Per Petterson November 03, 2005
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

8.Det er greit for meg: Roman by: Per Petterson 1992
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

9.Ekkoland by: Per Petterson 1989
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

10.Out Stealing Horses by: Per Petterson 2007
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I sought out IN THE WAKE after having read and being mightily impressed by Per Petterson's later book, OUT STEALING HORSES (winner of the 2007 IMPAC Award). There are similarities in style, tone, and themes between the two novels. Both feature a not-so-young man (Arvid Janson in ITW, Trond Sander in OSH) trying to salvage some meaning and peace from life. Both Arvid and Trond are burdened by family tragedies and haunted by bittersweet nostalgic memories, many having to do with opportunities in life and relationships they let slip away. Both are engaged in a continuous struggle to understand a strong, almost domineering, now-deceased father and settle on a psychologically satisfactory model of how they related and measured up to him. But IN THE WAKE is bleaker in tone than OUT STEALING HORSES. Arvid ... Read More

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