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. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes is the sixth of his widely acclaimed works to be published in English.

What makes Petterson’s storytelling so mesmerising is his measured, gentle restraint

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. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes is the sixth of his widely acclaimed works to be published in English.

What makes Petterson’s storytelling so mesmerising is his measured, gentle restraint

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. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes is the sixth of his widely acclaimed works to be published in English.

What makes Petterson’s storytelling so mesmerising is his measured, gentle restraint