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Out Stealing Horses

by Per Petterson

A man retreats to the forest to understand his father.

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you've reached a point in life where you need silence to figure out who you actually are

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Trond is 67, living alone in a remote Norwegian cabin, when an encounter with a neighbor unlocks the summer of 1948 — the last summer with his father, when everything changed. Petterson moves between past and present with extraordinary precision, the Norwegian landscape doing as much narrative work as the characters. A dispatch from inside the specific Norwegian relationship between silence, nature, and the things men don't say to each other. One of the most quietly devastating novels in this catalog.

Where This Book Lives

Setting
Norway • Scandinavia
Voice
Written by a Norwegian author
Themes
fathers and sonshistorical memory
Topics
norwegian world war ii resistance

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dir. Ava DuVernay

Racism is the symptom. Caste is the disease.

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Why it’s here: Punk in daring to name America's racial order as a caste system, kin to India's and Nazi Germany's, rather than a uniquely American aberration. Pedagogical in dramatizing how a writer's own grief becomes the engine of rigorous, world-spanning research.

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