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theparisreview: What We’re Loving: “If this had been something in a novel, it would just have been irritating. I have in fact done a lot of reading, particularly in the last few years, but earlier, too, by all means, and I have thought about what I read, and that kind of coincidence seems far-fetched in fiction, in modern novels anyway, and I find it hard to accept.” So the narrator of Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses introduces a crucial plot point in this vivid, engrossing novel about a boy and his father in the Norwegian countryside after World War II. I love that move (there must be a word for it) when a storyteller makes us believe in something implausible by pointing out its implausibility, its tackiness even. —L. S. I love love love this book. Most highly recommended. I think I’m on my third or fourth copy because I keep loaning it out faster than it’s returned.

theparisreview:

What We’re Loving:

“If this had been something in a novel, it would just have been irritating. I have in fact done a lot of reading, particularly in the last few years, but earlier, too, by all means, and I have thought about what I read, and that kind of coincidence seems far-fetched in fiction, in modern novels anyway, and I find it hard to accept.” So the narrator of Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses introduces a crucial plot point in this vivid, engrossing novel about a boy and his father in the Norwegian countryside after World War II. I love that move (there must be a word for it) when a storyteller makes us believe in something implausible by pointing out its implausibility, its tackiness even. —L. S.


I love love love this book. Most highly recommended. I think I’m on my third or fourth copy because I keep loaning it out faster than it’s returned.
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    Highly recommended. From 2003 (translated into English in 2005).
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    I loved this book!
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    I was thinking about this book this weekend and wondering whether to put it into this summer’s reading list. The mood...
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    I only wish I hadn’t already read this book, so I could read it again for the first time.

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