Pferde Stehlen by Per Petterson

An ageing man living in a remote part of rural Norway reflects on a single, formative summer of his adolescence spent with his father in the countryside; through memories of friendships, a risky episode that binds him to other boys, and an abrupt family rupture, the narrative moves between past and present to explore solitude, loss, memory’s unreliability, and the slow, uneasy work of coming to terms with what shaped a life.