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In the Wake: A Novel

Author: Per Petterson
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, wake
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427042
ISBN-13: 9780312427047

When Arvid Jansen comes-to one morning in the doorway of a bookstore in Oslo, Norway, his grief comes back to him in devastating flashes: His parents and his brothers are dead, he has lost touch with his wife and daughters, abandoned his career as a writer and bookseller. His old life is gone. In the Wake is the story of Arvid’s first steps toward resuming that life, of his gradual confrontation with everything he lost and ultimately with his own role in the disaster that killed his family. Told with the insight and moral force of his countryman Knut Hamsun, In the Wake is the American

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

Author: Per Petterson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: novel, horses, stealing
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1555974708
ISBN-13: 9781555974701

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and oneof the first days of July.Trond’s friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on borrowed” horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that dayan incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.Set in the easternmost region of No

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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel

Author: Per Petterson
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, horses, stealing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312427085
ISBN-13: 9780312427085

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDOut 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 ou

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To Siberia: A Novel

Authors:Per Petterson, Anne Bor,
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, siberia
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312428995
ISBN-13: 9780312428990

Born into a troubled family in a Danish seaside town, the heroine of To Siberia clings to her brother, and he to her, with a desperate devotion. The novel tells the story of their powerful bond and their agonizing separation. Neglected by their parents, the two wander the streets of their village as young children, dreaming of a different life. The sister fantasizes about escaping to Siberia, but that dream seems ever more remote as her brother becomes a young man and disappears into the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation. Their separation begins years of wandering for her, and Pe