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A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.Arvid Jansen is in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. He spends his time drinking, falling into fleeting relationships with women, and driving around in his Mazda. A year ago, his wife Turid took their three daughters and left him. When Turid unexpectedly calls...

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Metis Edebiyatta daha önce yayimladigimiz At Calmaya Gidiyoruz ve Lanet Olsun Zaman Nehrinenin ardindan Norvecli yazardan yine cok seveceginiz bir roman.Cocukluk arkadasi olan Tommy ve Jim, 35 yil sonra tesadüfen karsilasirlar. Birbirlerini son gördüklerinde Tommynin annesi onlari terk etmis, baba dayagindan kurtulmak isteyen Tommy ailenin tamamen dagilmasina yol acmistir. Dindar annesiyle yasayan Jim ise egitimine devam etmis, sosyalist olmus...

A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces, this is the major new novel from the author of bestselling Out Stealing Horses.'Vivid and moving... It would be hard to find a better writer than Petterson' Irish TimesIn 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight, divorced and paralysed by grief. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers.Existence has become a question of holdin...

The shimmering, windswept first novel by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses. Echoland is the powerful and emotionally resonant first novel from Per Petterson. Written in the mold of his early story collection Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes, it features a young Arvid Janssen, who is now twelve, on the verge of his teenage years and beginning to understand more about the world and his place in it. Set over the cours...

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses.Men in My Situation, Per Petterson's evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. In the aftermath, Arvid's wife, Turid, divorced him and took their three daughters with her. One year later, Arvid still hasn't recover...

Turid has left with their three girls, slipping into her young, exuberant crowd of friends - the colourful - and a new house with no trace of their previous life together.

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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 ...

Keiner schreibt über private Katastrophen so diskret und behutsam wie Per Petterson - sein bestes Buch nach "Pferde stehlen"Arvid Jansens Ehe ist gescheitert, seine Frau mit den drei Töchtern auf und davon. Sie findet neue Freunde, er nennt sie nur "die Farbenfrohen", und er bleibt allein. Auch seine Kinder entgleiten ihm immer mehr. Arvids Weg führt steil nach unten, er scheitert als Mann, als Vater, bis er wieder zu sich kommt und seine Vera...

A bestseller and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, now in paperback from Graywolf Press for the first timeWe 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. Wha...

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Translated by Don Bartlett. Published in English for the first time, a poignant book about growing up and rancorous family life.

Narrada en primera persona por Trond Sender, un hombre de sesenta y siete años que vive aislado en una casa de un bosque situado en la frontera entre Noruega y Suecia, Salir a robar caballos es una novela de formación en la que el protagonista rememora su vida en el verano de 1948, cuando tenía 15 años. Hacía tres que los alemanes habían abandonado el país, y en ese momento descubrió la verdad sobre las relaciones adúlteras existentes entre su...

Author of Out Stealing HorsesA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearFans of Per Petterson's other books in English will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective. In It's Fine by Me, Arvid befriends a boy named Audun. On Audun's first day of school he refuses to talk or take off his sunglasses, there are stories he would prefer to keep to himself. Audun lives with his mother in...

Der erste Roman des interessantesten Schriftstellers aus Norwegen: Auden ist 13 und lässt sich nicht unterkriegen, auch wenn der Alltag knallhart und die Familie zerrüttet ist. Der Vater säuft und prügelt, die Mutter flieht mit den Kindern in die Großstadt. Egal, was passiert, ist schon in Ordnung, Auden schluckt einfach den Schmerz hinunter. Bis er Arvid trifft, mit dem er die Leidenschaft für die Bücher entdeckt und beschließt, Schriftstelle...

Früher waren Jim und Tommy unzertrennlich. Jim, der Gymnasiast, wuchs bei seiner frommen Mutter ziemlich wohlbehütet auf. Tommy lebte bei einem Pflegevater und arbeitete in der Sägemühle. Nun treffen sie einander nach über dreißig Jahren wieder: Tommy hat es in der Finanzbranche zu Wohlstand gebracht, aber der Job ist ihm zuwider. Jim ist Bibliothekar geworden, seit einem Jahr jedoch ist er krankgeschrieben und angelt am Fluss. In unvergesslic...