We all agreed we wished for a happier ending! But what a great night sitting out on Heather's deck watching the osprey and enjoying talking about books. Thanks for bringing your Kindle Margie! Now we all want one for Christmas!
From one on-line review....
This fine novel, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born, was the surprise winner of the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and it really is a book to cherish and remember.
Out Stealing Horses eschews the knowing realism of much contemporary fiction in favour of the episodic ebb and flow of the "unending conversation" in the mind of the narrator, as he looks back upon a series of traumatic war-time incidents in the past, and in the face of approaching old age. The narrator, Trond, has returned, following the death of his second wife, to a remote settlement in Norway where he and his family spent their childhood holidays under German occupation. Not only do old faces re-appear, but he has to try to finally understand the familial and political betrayals of that bitter period of resistance and collaboration, and the breaking of families.
1 comment:
Thank you Heather! What a beautiful place to talk about the book. I loved it. Bethany
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