Out Stealing Horses

Name: Out Stealing Horses
Author: Per Petterson

by Per Petterson

Meditation on friendship, memory, and mortality in rural Norwegian landscape

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Per Petterson

Norwegian novelist whose Out Stealing Horses, translated into dozens of languages, became an international phenomenon. His spare, melancholic fiction explores memory and loss in the Norwegian landscape. He is Norway's most internationally celebrated contemporary novelist.

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