From New York with Love

The latest issue of The New Yorker has a review of To Siberia by Per Petterson. Petterson's first two books In the Wake and Out Stealing Horses were surprise hits.

The review is quite a love letter: "Petterson could be labelled a “prose stylist,” except you never feel that he is styling anything; you feel that he is simply setting down sentences, unaffected by slang and hip foreign expressions. (This comes through remarkably well in the faithful translations of Anne Born.)"

The entire review is here.--David E