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ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [MARCH - NORWAY]
Hey everyone! We ve now journeyed into South Korea and Argentina, and I hope you ve enjoyed your reading so far.
Let us know in the comments which Argentinian book you read for February and whether you liked it! Now March is just around the corner, so it s time to pack our bags and check out what chilly
Norway has to offer us for our ONTD reading challenge!
Major thanks to
kjendis5 for helping with the write-up and explaining what were the most important points to focus on. We hope knowing more about the country will help to improve your reading experience! Thank you also to
Per Petterson’s “To Siberia”
Graywolf Press, 2008
In 2007 Per Petterson had his second publication in the United States: a short, unostentatious, and penetrating novel entitled
Out Stealing Horses. It was a surprising commercial and critical success, propelled in no small part by Thomas McGuane s feature-length review in the
New York Times Book Review that coincided with the novel s release. McGuane s review is itself a sort of masterpiece, establishing subtle continuities between Petterson s Norway and the American literary landscape. Its opening paragraph ends with a bold statement about Trond Sander, the narrator of
Out Stealing Horses: he is more like us than other Scandinavian protagonists.