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Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson, Anne Born - translator
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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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 Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Small Town & Rural World Literature

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An interesting historical insight into a part of the Second World War about which I knew very little. Although the book was read/performed well, I wonder if it might have been better to have had a Norwegian actor read it as the reader's accent meant that I had a picture of the mid-west of the United States in my mind, rather than Northern Europe.

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