I refuse

By Per Petterson

"[A] tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim...

Ashes in my mouth sand in my shoes

By Per Petterson

Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and sti...

Out Stealing Horses

By Per Petterson, Anne Born

Out Stealing Horses

By Per Petterson

To Siberia

By Per Petterson

In the years before the Nazis arrive, two young people growing up in Danish Jutland have dreams of leaving their frigid coastal town while coping with distant parents, eccentric family members, and...

I curse the river of time

By Per Petterson

Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest fo...

Out stealing horses

By Per Petterson

Out Stealing Horses

By Per Petterson

I curse the river of time

By Per Petterson

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we fol...

I curse the river of time

By Per Petterson

It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen, 37, is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we fol...