Out Stealing Horses

In l 948，fifteen．year．old Trond spends a summer in the country with his father．The unexpected events that come to pass
alter his!ire forevel.
An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond confused when his friend Jon SUffers a sudden breakdown．
Behind this scene．he will discover,lies a personal tragedy：the first incident in the gradual destruction of the two
boys’families．
As an old man，living in an isolated part of Norway,Trond chances upon a character from that fateful summer who stirs up painful memories and forces him to look back at his past．

Per Petterson，born in 1952，was a bookseller before publishing his first work，a volume of short stories，in 1987．Since then he has written five novels，which have established his reputation as one of Norway'S best fiction writers．Out Stealing Horses was awarded both the Norwegian Book-sellers'Prize and the Critics，Award for best novel．In the wake (in Anne Born'S translation)was
longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.