"To Siberia"

New from Graywolf Press: To Siberia by Per Petterson.

About the book, from the publisher:

In this exquisite novel, Per Petterson explores a life that is outwardly barren but sharply etched, charged with meaning. Readers and critics will find here the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses, a literary sensation of 2007.

A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Their parents’ neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. “Sistermine” dreams of escaping to Siberia, for “skies that were cold and clear, where it was easy to breathe and easy to see for long distances.” But Siberia seems increasingly distant as she helplessly watches her brother become increasingly involved in resisting the Nazis.

Read Ray Taras' review of Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses.