A review by ericfheiman
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

4.0

This book was so understated that I think I need to reread it in a sensory deprivation tank. The writing is beautiful and the shifting between past and present works well. I was reminded of W.G. Sebald, with an emphasis on how the ravages of war affect those years later and exploring it diffusely. But where Sebald's books mysteriously get under one's skin by their conclusions, "Horses" never really accumulates that kind of force, and keeps it from being the classic many have claimed it to be.