Norwegian fiction-translations into English.
Powieść norweska 1990- tłumaczenia polskie.
Isolement social Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Out stealing horses [a Gab bag for book discussion groups]
Salir a robar caballos
In 1948, fifteen-year-old Trond spends a summer in the country with his father. The unexpected events that come to pass alter his life forever. An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond confused when his friend Jon suffers a sudden breakdown. Behind this scene, he will discover, lies a personal tragedy: the first incident in the gradual destruction of the two boys' families. As an old man, living in an isolated part of Norway, Trond chances upon a character from that fateful summer who stirs up painful memories and forces him to look back at his past.
Ut och stjäla hästar : roman
Een gepensioneerde man trekt zich terug in een verlaten deel van Oost-Noorwegen, waar hij een leeftijdgenoot treft die hij van vroeger kent.
Fiction
Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day - an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys.
Modern fiction
Set in the easternmost region of Norway; after a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marked the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.
De 67-jarige Trond trekt zich terug in een huisje aan een meer in het oosten van Noorwegen. Na de dood van zijn vrouw heeft hij zijn bedrijf en zijn huis verkocht. Nu woont hij alleen met zijn bastaardhond. Hij brengt de tijd door met praktisch werk: reparaties, voorbereidingen voor de winter. Een ontmoeting met een leeftijdgenoot maakt herinneringen los aan de zomer van 1948, toen Trond een jongen van vijftien was en de vakantie samen met zijn vader doorbracht. Het was een zomer vol hooi, warmte, regen en mannen die hard hun best deden om het werk af te krijgen. Een perfecte zomer, totdat Trond voor het eerst in zijn leven de dood tegenkwam. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Trond Sender, un hombre de sesenta y siete años que vive aislado en una casa de un bosque situado en la fronte entre Noruega y Suecia, rememora su vida en el verano de 1948, cuando tenía quince años, hacía tres que los alemanes habían abandonado el país, y descubrió la verdad sobre las relaciones adúlteras entre su padre y la madre de su mejor amigo, y sobre el pasado político de su padre, antiguo miembro de la resistencia contra los nazis. Enfrentado al descubrimiento desl erotismo, de la muerte y de la falsa armonía familiar, Trond se convierte, en un verano, en un hombre adult.
Handbooks and manuals
Out stealing horses
An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives alone with his dog in a remote cabin in easternmost Norway. He hopes this isolation will help him take life one step at a time after the deaths of both his sister and his wife three years ago. This peaceful solitude is broken by the appearance of his only neighbor out looking for his dog--Library Journal Review.
Gab bags
After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marked the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.
Out stealing horses [set of 10]
Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945
Electronic books
At çalmaya gidiyoruz
Kradnąc konie
Ud og stjæle heste : roman
Ancien chef d'entreprise à la retraite, Trond Sander a décidé de se retirer dans une petite maison isolée dans la campagne norvégienne. Un jour, une histoire de chien perdu l'amène à faire la connaissance d'un voisin, un certain Lars Haug. Une rencontre qui ramène Trond à l'été de ses 15 ans, en 1948.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the dark behind his home, the reader is immersed in a decades-deep story of searching and loss, and in the precise, irresistible prose of a newly crowned master of fiction.
Book Club Kit. Out stealing horses
Psychological fiction
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, and his father's decision to leave the family for another woman - will change his life forever.
Norwegen im Sommer 1948: Der fünfzehnjährige Trond verbringt die Ferien in einer Hütte nahe der schwedischen Grenze. Als in der Nachbarsfamilie ein schreckliches Unglück geschieht, entdeckt der Junge das wohlgehütete Lebensgeheimnis seines Vaters. In den Kriegsjahren hatte dieser zusammen mit der Nachbarin politisch Verfolgte über den Fluss gebracht. Und sich dabei für immer in diese Frau verliebt. Noch ahnt Trond nicht, dass er seinen Vater nach diesem gemeinsamen Sommer nie wiedersehen wird.
"An early morning adventure out stealing horses leaves Trond confused when his friend Jon suffers a sudden breakdown. Behind the scene, he will discover, lies a personal tragedy: the first incident in the gradual destruction of the two boys' families." -- from publisher.
Out stealing horses a novel
We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July. Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day-an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.
After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.
Large type books
Fuori a rubar cavalli
Ut og stjæle hester