From Per Petterson's interview by James Campbell in the
Guardian:
"When I started Out Stealing Horses, I had no idea that the war would be in that book. Then some friction crept in - an unease between the two fathers. And I thought to myself: what can that be? Well, this is the 1940s. It has to be something about the war. Shit. I'll have to write about the war. Then I have to do research, and I hate research. Of course, now it seems that the war is essential to the story."
Read
the complete interview.
See Ray Taras' reviews of
Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses and
To Siberia.
--Marshal Zeringue
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