Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson, Anne Born - translator

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

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In 1948, when he is 15, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father.

The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.

An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond bruised and puzzled by his friend Jon's sudden breakdown. The tragedy which lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for the two boys' families gradually to fall apart. As a 67-year-old man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has moved to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. But a chance encounter with a character from the fateful summer of 1948 brings the painful memories of that year flooding back, and will leave Trond even more convinced of his decision to end his days alone.

©2003 Per Petterson (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Looking for understanding

A man looks back on his life and finally comes to terms with experiences from his teenage years which had coloured his whole life Told in chapters which alternate from the present to the past the reader is taken from the present to the past. Out Stealing Horses takes on several meanings in this enigmatic novel.

Wonderful

Loved every bit of it. Left with questions for the characters. It can't be finished like that. Too many things left not answered.