Out Stealing Horses
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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In 1948, when he is fifteen, 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 choice to place the family tree 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 that lies behind this scene becomes the catalyst for the two boys’ families to gradually fall apart.
As a 67-year-ancient man, and following the death of his wife, Trond has stirred 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 place Trond even more convinced of his choice to end his days alone.
Per Petterson, defeated eight finalists, including Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, Salman Rushdie and Cormac McCarthy to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Out Stealing Horses.
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How did this interminable, dull book about Scandanavians forgodsakes who are about as emotional as bricks becomes a bestseller? If I knew the secret to that I’d write one. I’m an leader, and if you read my book you’re gonna have a lot more fun I guarantee it. I wrote He’s History, You’re Not: Extant Divorce After 40 and if Trond’s mom had read it she she wouldn’t have gotten so stout and depressed. She would have place on some makeup, gone to the gym, establish a hottie, and stirred to Italy where it’s a tad warmer. Seems like this affair thing happens everywhere and falling for a co-worker, especially if she’s in the resistance and is floating logs down a river, is universal. Was this guy having a midlife crisis or what. We never find out.
As for the narrator, he’s about as appealing as an ice floe. He treats his daughter like dirt after she turns heaven and planet to track him down, all he can reflect about is his glorious past, before his father abandoned him. Well, I guess he’s just like his cold fish of a father after all.
This book is suffering from what I call the John Updike syndrome. Description upon minute description of every small tree and every motion of every character. No stone is left undescribed. Really the leader could have described the dog better. He was the only character I really liked and all I establish out about him was that he was a mutt. And that translation sucks. Considering everyone in Norway speaks English couldn’t they have establish a better translator. I can’t judge the language in the original Norwegian was so tortured.
I listened to the book on my MP3 player because my book club selected it. Why, I have no thought. I never would have finished it if I’d had to really read it.
Oh, please book club, pick something a bit more lively next time. How about Charlaine Harris. Or anything vampire. Hey, why not read my book. That goes for all the book clubs out there. I’ll even answer your questions. Email me. I promise a few laughs and no gloom and doom.
Erica Manfred
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He’s History, You’re Not: Extant Divorce After 40
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Wow! What is this book about? I had such high hopes agreed all the hype it has received. Dull, slow, and truly incoherent. Still wondering if the translation is to blame…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I really wanted to like this book, but it fell flat.
I couldn’t get into it at all. Dull.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Slow. Jumps back and into the world in time and you don’t know what is going on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I got 60 or so pages into it and realized that I had no thought what was going on. It’s hard to read, the sentences are reasonably long and cumbersome.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5