Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by: Per Petterson
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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.
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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- What? Bestseller?
Boring
Tedious
Redundant
Slow
Disappointing
failed to connect and extrapolate
Why did I feel like I had to finish it?Hard to say, there was something in it but it left me wanting.....
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- A journey too slow
Neither my wife nor I could finish this slow, tedious book that started and stopped in the middle of things so that half the time you did not know where your were or in what time frame. The story meanders, is not interesting and reads more like a slow paced, rarely eventful journal. The book promises but never delivers.
Rating: - Haunting
I found myself haunted by this novel, but I can't say exactly why. It is a book in which little actually happens, mostly in the distant past, but the echoes of that past can still be heard after half a century. It has a strong sense of place: Southeastern Norway, in the forests along the Swedish border, by no means the tourist areas. Pettersen's language is seldom lyrical, but objective, almost dry, writing for the most part in very short sentences (in the original too, so far as I can tell). Yet ... Read More
Rating: - Why oh why is this book a bestseller????
How did this interminable, boring book about Scandanavians forgodsakes who are about as emotional as bricks becomes a bestseller?If I knew the secret to that I'd write one.I'm an author, and if you read my book you're gonna have a lot more fun I guarantee it.I wrote He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40 and if Trond's mom had read it she she wouldn't have gotten so fat and depressed. She would have put on some makeup, gone to the gym, found a hottie, and moved to Italy where it's ... Read More
Rating: - Should Be Titled: Out Cutting Down Trees
If you like titles that are literal, let me point out that a lot more cutting down of timber than stealing of horses goes on in this book. This is the story of an elderly man who has chosen to live out his last days in a remote cabin in Norway. Unexpectedly, he encounters an old acquaintance who triggers memories from his past.
The story begins at the onset of winter, and is punctuated by the narrator's reminiscences of a summer he spent in a similarly remote location when he was fifteen ... Read More
- What? Bestseller?Boring
Tedious
Redundant
Slow
Disappointing
failed to connect and extrapolate
Why did I feel like I had to finish it?Hard to say, there was something in it but it left me wanting.....
- A journey too slowNeither my wife nor I could finish this slow, tedious book that started and stopped in the middle of things so that half the time you did not know where your were or in what time frame. The story meanders, is not interesting and reads more like a slow paced, rarely eventful journal. The book promises but never delivers.
- HauntingI found myself haunted by this novel, but I can't say exactly why. It is a book in which little actually happens, mostly in the distant past, but the echoes of that past can still be heard after half a century. It has a strong sense of place: Southeastern Norway, in the forests along the Swedish border, by no means the tourist areas. Pettersen's language is seldom lyrical, but objective, almost dry, writing for the most part in very short sentences (in the original too, so far as I can tell). Yet ... Read More
- Why oh why is this book a bestseller????How did this interminable, boring book about Scandanavians forgodsakes who are about as emotional as bricks becomes a bestseller?If I knew the secret to that I'd write one.I'm an author, and if you read my book you're gonna have a lot more fun I guarantee it.I wrote He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40 and if Trond's mom had read it she she wouldn't have gotten so fat and depressed. She would have put on some makeup, gone to the gym, found a hottie, and moved to Italy where it's ... Read More
- Should Be Titled: Out Cutting Down TreesIf you like titles that are literal, let me point out that a lot more cutting down of timber than stealing of horses goes on in this book. This is the story of an elderly man who has chosen to live out his last days in a remote cabin in Norway. Unexpectedly, he encounters an old acquaintance who triggers memories from his past.
The story begins at the onset of winter, and is punctuated by the narrator's reminiscences of a summer he spent in a similarly remote location when he was fifteen ... Read More
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