Per peterson biography books in order

I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came.

Per Petterson's Books ; Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses.

On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up. In this exquisite novel, readers will find the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Out Stealing Horses, a literary sensation of A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather.

Their parents neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. Spanning an intense period of only a few weeks, In the Wake features 43 year old Arvid, a writer who lost his parents and younger brothers in a ferry accident some years before. It is especially against his repressed memories of his father and mother, and of his still living brother that Arvid must regard and define his own life.

As Arvid struggles with memories, existential questions, and a deep sense of the world s injustice, he remains overwhelmed by grief, and guilt at having survived. Work on his novel stalls as he moves through life in a cold haze. But while Arvid s only human contact is with his Kurdish neighbor and with a woman whom he glimpses in a flat across the road, it is this routine contact that begins to slowly remind him of the world of the beauty and humor we can find in the mundane.

His debut book was Aske i munnen, sand i skoa (), a collection of short stories.

As he is reminded, his memories begin to return, and he begins to write again. Poignant, restrained, darkly funny, and at times unbearably moving, In the Wake takes on terrible tragedy as one man begins to reconnect with the natural world at times our only source of solace when we ve been left to survive In the Wake. In , when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father.

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.