Books like Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
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Wanderers
An ageing writer takes to the road as a labourer in rural Norway, working on farms and estates, and falls under the spell of a captain's wife at one of them.
The Details
A bedridden woman with a fever recalls four people who shaped her life, turning each encounter over in compact, precise portraits.
Gilead
An ageing Iowa pastor writes a letter to his young son, reflecting on faith, regret, and the luminous strangeness of ordinary life.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A man haunted by the unexplained abandonment of four close friends makes a pilgrimage to understand what broke them apart.
The Maid Silja
Silja, the last daughter of a ruined Finnish farming family, goes into service on farms and estates in the years around 1918, a young woman of quiet grace in hard times.
Rosshalde
On the estate of Rosshalde, the celebrated painter Johann Veraguth lives estranged from his wife, his one joy their small son Pierre, as a friend urges him to leave for India.
The Other Name: Septology I-II
An ageing Norwegian painter reflects on his life, art, and faith in single unbroken sentences across seven books; the first two arrive here.
Growth of the Soil
Isak, a huge, silent man, walks into the empty Norwegian uplands and clears a farm from nothing, and a woman with a harelip comes to live with him.
The True Deceiver
In a snowbound coastal village, a calculating young woman sets out to win the trust and money of a reclusive children's book illustrator, and each woman ends up changing the other.
Foster
A girl from a large, struggling family is sent to live with relatives on a farm in rural Ireland for a summer, and the quiet kindness she finds there changes her, in a single, devastating novella.
The Sound of the Mountain
An ageing patriarch in postwar Japan listens to the mountain and contemplates his family's slow dissolution, beauty, and the nearness of death.