Review
A bestseller in Norway and Germany
and the winner of the Irish IMPAC award*,
Out
Stealing Horses was published in the USA in
hardcover last year, and in paperback a couple of
weeks ago. Set in the East of Norway on the border
of Sweden (map
of Norway), the story opens in 1999 with
67-year-old Trond Sanders recently settled into a
broken-down cabin a long way from any city, where he
plans to live out his days. Then, a meeting with his
only neighbor, who he believes he recognizes from
long ago, triggers memories of the fateful July of
1948, when he was 15 years-old and spent the summer
with his father in a cabin not dissimilar to the one
in which he now lives. He remembers the long summer
days spent adventuring with a neighboring boy, Jon...
Beyond the Book
A Short History of Norway
Norway is one of the three kingdoms in the geographical region known as Scandinavia (map); the others being Denmark and Sweden. Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands are sometimes described as Scandinavian
because of their close
geographical and historic
connections with Scandinavia,
although technically speaking
these countries belong to the
wider definition of "Nordic
countries", of which Denmark,
Sweden and Norway are also a
part.
Up until the 9th century AD,
Norway consisted of various
small kingdoms, which were
united for the first time...
