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Informationen zum Autor Per Petterson was born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He has received the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize and, on multiple occasions, the Brage Prize, the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and the Booksellers' Best Book of the Year Award for his many celebrated novels, such as In the Wake , I Curse the River of Time and I Refuse . Petterson made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with Out Stealing Horses , which in English translation won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It has been published in fifty languages and was an international bestseller. Klappentext In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco. Their home with a pious mother who sings hymns all day and a silent father is as cold as their surroundings. But the unshakeable bond between brother and sister creates a vital warmth which glows in spite of the chill and the dark clouds that threaten to overtake their dreams. Zusammenfassung In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco.
