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by: Per Petterson  List Price: $22.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.96 You Save: $7.04 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 839.82374 EAN: 9781555975067 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1555975062 Label: Graywolf Press Manufacturer: Graywolf Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Publisher: Graywolf Press Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: Graywolf Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. 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 2007. 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. The sister dreams of escaping to Siberia, but it seems increasingly distant as she helplessly watches her brother become more and more involved in resisting the Nazis. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Siberia of the soulThis is one of those spare little novels that you read in a couple hours, and then it stays with you a while...like, forever. The setting is beautifully invoked- you can hear gulls cry and feel the cutting wind off the sea. The unnamed heroin is an unforgetable character- part plucky kid sister "Littless" from Hemmingway's Nick Adams stories, part Mersault from "The Stranger", and a good bit of Scout Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (but imagine Scout older, wised-up, and struggling to deal with ... Read More Rating:  - Disappointed This TimeHaving just completed, "Out Stealing Horses," I was really anxious to get my hands on this one. But I was sadly disappointed. In essence, I missed the poetic beauty and earthy simplicity that gave me so much pleasure the first time around. Rating: - A life that is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish" (if not short)Having been bowled over by Petterson's "Out Stealing Horses" (OSH) and impressed by his "In the Wake" (ITW) I was eager to read TO SIBERIA, the third of his novels to be released in translation in the United States (although it predates both OSH and ITW). It too is powerful, and beautifully written. It may not be great literature, as I believe OSH to be, but it probably is slightly finer than ITW (although it may be unfair to compare that novel to any other, given the acute cathartic nature it must ... Read More Rating: - Pure MagicI was swept away by Per Petterson's outstanding novel, "Out Stealing Horses" and I was literally waiting at the door for the UPS driver to deliver this latest release. I was not disappointed! However, this not an easy read and it took me a little longer to get thru this story than normal, but it was well worth the trouble. This is not your ordinary "coming of age" novel, but pure poetry in the way the author can put words to paper to make the reader actually feel like you're right there ... Read More Rating:  - Poignant and poeticHaving read and reviewed Per Petterson's "Out Stealing Horses" a while ago, I had no idea that this was an earlier work. Just as with "Out Stealing Horses", Petterson is a consummate writer who is able to evoke the complexities within human relationships. Here, the focus is on a pair of siblings - older brother Jesper and younger sister Sistermine, who live in a small town in northern Denmark, on the North Sea. Spanning the years 1934-1947, the story traces the pair's dreams and strong kinship through ... Read More 
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