Out Stealing Horses

Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and the Critics’ Award for best novel, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer when what began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Trond’s friend,Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day - an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.