Per Petterson

Multiple award-winning author Per Petterson delivers an eloquent, meditative novel....

In his signature spare style, Petterson weaves a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood 35 years ago....

Struggling through his divorce, an overwhelmed Arvid Jansen leaves Norway to reconnect with his Danish mother, who has terminal cancer....

In To Siberia, an unnamed girl - called Sistermine by her beloved brother Jesper - grows up in WWII Denmark, but dreams of escaping to the idyllic countryland in Siberia....

In 1948, when he is 15, Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The events - the accidental death of a child, his best friend's feelings of guilt and eventual disappearance, his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever....

Fans of Per Petterson will be delighted by this opportunity to observe Arvid Jansen in his youth from a fresh perspective....

Norwegen im Sommer 1948: Der fünfzehnjährige Trond verbringt die Ferien in einer Hütte nahe der schwedischen Grenze...

Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early '60s; his father works in a shoe factory, and his Danish mother works as a cleaner....

Jim, der Gymnasiast, wuchs wohlbehütet bei seiner frommen Mutter auf. Tommy dagegen lebte bei einem Pflegevater und arbeitete in der Sägemühle...

Arvid ist Schriftsteller. Das ist ohnehin schon ein Beruf, der einem Leben wenig Struktur bietet...

Als Audun in die neue Schule in Oslo kommt, ist er vom Regen durchnässt, aber die Sonnenbrille will er nicht abnehmen...