Bought at my local USB for my June book club.

Synopsis

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.

I read this book for my June book club, and although I thought it was pretty good, the ending just left me hanging. The writing was beautiful, and I can well imagine that the author wrote it surrounded by the nature that he so vividly described. Some of his sentences were terrible run-on things. At times I had to read them two or three times to get his meaning. Maybe that was a translator issue, but it was a bit annoying. I really liked Trond, but more as an old man than as a boy. There were a lot of holes in his life that should have been filled in better, though.

Gave to a friend to read and pass on.