It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It wa

The moving story of a young man's life from an international literary master. On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to

The story of Norwegian Arvid Jansen, a man who finally finds the strength to confront and accept the disasters of his life.

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation, Per Petterson’s ev