If you actually read my reviews regularly (hi mom), you may have noticed that I'm not writing reviews regularly. I've been finding it difficult lately. You see, more than five years ago I began working part-time so that I could focus on being a writer. At the time I had a nearly completed novel and ...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/86304623548/out-stealing-horses-by-per-pettersonJust a marvelous book, paced so lovely, and the telling of the tale so interesting to me. The back and forth between the past and the present accomplished so adroitly that I was simply amazed at Petterson’s talent I had pr...
This is a strong narrative and as smoothly written as a rolling, snowy landscape. The protaganist, Trond, moves to a cabin in the woods to be alone and reflect on his life after retiring and losing his wife and sister. The action and ruminations of the book center on a summer Trond spent with his fa...
Read this in Norwegian (one of my first attempts) but still couldn't put it down. Deceptively simple prose conceals a story of great emotional complexity. "Coming of age" is the pat description, but that doesn't do it justice.
Out stealing horses mesmerizes you from page one. With quiet, simple language, Trond T narrates and draws you into the solitude and quietude of the world he inhabits, moving back and forth through time from age 15 to age 67. He spends his fifteenth summer with his dad, Trond Sr., in a cabin located ...
Trond Sander has removed himself to an isolated cabin to live out the remainder of his lonely life when he comes across a man in the dark and he suddenly remembers all the events of one memorable summer.
There are books that are Gifts, and then there are books that are gifts. One gives you something you didn't expect, the other comes wrapped in paper on holidays or birthdays. This is one of the latter.I can see why it was chosen. Some very heavy hitters have blurbed the crap out of the back cover. T...
What do we see when we look back over our lives. Are we the hero of our own story? Looking into that mirror, can we really see ourselves, or is our view doomed to be perpetually blocked, offering maybe a Maigret image of only the backs of our heads?A man, 67, Trond, lives alone in a small house by ...
Oh my! This one really worked for me. I stayed up way too late two nights in a row to read this.Trond Sander is an elderly Norwegian widower. He moves to a tumble-down house on a river to be alone and lead a quiet, simpler life. A chance encounter with a neighbor one night stirs up memories and ...
I read this book because it brought back to me exactly how it is to live in Dalarna, Sweden, ie immediately over the border on the Swedish side. A perfect picture of the laid back life style of rural central Sweden. What does a border mean? Very little. The lakes, gravel roads, small cottages, the t...
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