Jonathan Keates

Into the Norwegian wood

Out Stealing Horses<br />by Per Petterson<br />translated by Anne Born

issue 28 July 2007

Here is a remarkable novel, one which appears to be about nothing in particular, featuring barely half a dozen characters, several of whom have no names. Hardly anything happens. A boy dies, a man gets shot, another boy is given a new suit, and that, more or less, is that.

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