Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

This is a quiet story of a sixty-seven year old widow who chooses to live his remaining years alone in an isolated cabin in Norway near the border to Sweden. While here he reminisces about a summer spent in a similar cabin with his father in 1948 and an incident that happened to a family of a boy he befriended while there. The author deftly moves between past and present, writing a spare but rich, compelling, and haunting story. - JP