'If you loved Out Stealing Horses, you won’t be disappointed by his razor-sharp debut… The language is simple, beautiful and cleansed of literary affectation. There is not a single superfluous word' - Ekstrabladet (Denmark)

'These father-son stories bring us the first meeting with one of Nordic literature’s most lovable characters, Arvid Jansen. A mixture of Alfons Åberg, Ingemar from My Life as a Dog and in part Oskar from The Tin Drum ... New readers should begin nowhere but here' - Euroman (Denmark)

'There is both humour and tenderness… Petterson masters the art of writing simply of big subjects. As a reader, you have to read slowly and attentively to register everything, or read the book twice, which you gladly will' - Kristeligt Dagblad (Norway)

'His sentences yearn to fly away into poetry' James Wood, New Yorker

Out Stealing Horses won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Norwegian Critics' prize and the Booksellers' Prize

This is Petterson's widely praised debut, published in English for the first time

A huge international success - Petterson's novels have been published in 49 languages

More than 1 million copies of Out Stealing Horses sold worldwide (350,000 in the US alone)

Petterson won the 2012 Gyldendal Prize - the most coveted prize for Norwegian authors, for a body of work

I Curse the River of Time was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize