Title : It's Not Easy Stealing Horses - Per Petterson - book

Summary :

In the summer of 1948, Trond is fifteen years old and happy to be alone with his father on vacation in a village near the Swedish border. There, he meets his friend Jon, who suggests one morning that they go "stealing horses." It's actually about borrowing a landowner's horses for a little getaway. Trond accepts, despite some apprehension, and the adventure ends badly for him: he falls from his horse and injures himself, then helplessly witnesses a strange explosion of rage and violence in his friend's home. His father then tells him that the day before, a terrible accident occurred in Jon's family, who leaves the village shortly after. Trond then spends the rest of the summer with his father, to whom he feels increasingly close. When a neighbor reveals that the latter was an active member of the Resistance during the Occupation of Norway, he has no idea that the dramatic events of the Second World War will cast their shadow over his own family and take his father away from him. More than fifty years later, Trond decides to retire to the countryside in northeast Norway. He feels that his dream of tranquility is about to come true, but one evening, he meets his neighbor Lars, in whom he recognizes Jon's little brother. It's Not Easy Stealing Horses is a book of rare dramatic intensity, skillfully constructed around the secrets of the main characters. The reminiscences of a narrator at the end of his life and his evocation of an unforgettable summer are simply moving.

• EAN : 9782070358144
  
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