Salir a Robar Caballos - Out Stealing Horses - Spanish Edition Author:Per Petterson, Cristina Gómez Baggethun (Translator) In this quiet but compelling novel, Trond Sander, a widower nearing seventy, moves to a bare house in remote eastern Norway, seeking the life of quiet contemplation that he has always longed for. A chance encounter with a neighbor--the brother, as it happens, of his childhood friend Jon--causes him to ruminate on the summer of 1948, the last he ... more »spent with his adored father, who abandoned the family soon afterward. Trond's recollections center on a single afternoon, when he and Jon set out to take some horses from a nearby farm; what began as an exhilarating adventure ended abruptly and traumatically in an act of unexpected cruelty. Petterson's spare and deliberate prose has astonishing force, and the narrative gains further power from the artful interplay of Trond's childhood and adult perspectives. Loss is conveyed with all the intensity of a boy's perception, but acquires new resonance in the brooding consciousness of the older man.
Originally published as Ut og Stjoele Hester, translated from the Norwegian into Spanish by Cristina Gómez Baggethun.« less