Häftad, Engelska, 2006
Out Stealing Horses
WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE
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Beskrivning
Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM**In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone.'One of Norway's finest living writers' Independent'Deeply atmospheric...a stunning novel' Daily Telegraph
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2006-07-06
- Mått: 131 x 197 x 21 mm
- Vikt: 206 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 272
- Förlag: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099506133
- Översättare: Anne Born
- Utmärkelser: Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007
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Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been published in forty-nine languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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Lyrical, deceptively clever...the way the story folds together like the petals of a rose is one of the novel's pleasurable surprises...an intelligent journey from boyhood into manhood...
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