To Siberia

Name: To Siberia
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Per Petterson
ISBN: 9781436197809

Author: Per Petterson

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/05/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In To Siberia, an unnamed girl-called Sistermine by her beloved brother Jesper-grows up in WWII Denmark, but dreams of escaping to the idyllic countryland in Siberia. The siblings' already uninvolved parents become even more distant after a family member's suicide. And following the German invasion of Denmark, the now teenaged brother and sister begin to grow apart as well. Jesper longs for the warm southern sun of Morocco, while Sistermine dreams of Siberia's peaceful plains. The siblings' divergent paths are underscored by the intense loneliness of their separation. As Sistermine hopes to be reunited with her brother, she realizes that her dreams of happiness may have passed her by.

About Per Petterson

Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, which established him as one of Norway's best fiction writers. Petterson worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on November 20, 2022

4.5 stars I don’t know what happened to the past three years, but that is how much time has passed between my first and second encounters with Per Petterson’s writing. Is it rational to proclaim an author a favorite, after just two fairly short novels? Well, I’m going to do just that, because I can d......more

Goodreads review by Banu on November 01, 2022

mırıl mırıl akan, büyük olaylara dayanmayan, küçük trajedilerle ülke tarihi anlatan roman bence per petterson’ın nasıl iyi bir yazar olacağını muştulamış zaten. geçmişini anlatmaya çocukluktan başlayan adını bilmediğimiz kadın anlatıcının nerdeyse 20 yıla yakın bir süreyi aktarmasından oluşuyor sibir......more

Goodreads review by Hulyacln on July 29, 2022

Sibirya’da olup; oranın soğuğunu iliklerine kadar duyumsamayı isteyen bir kız çocuğu var. Kitaplarda gördüğü Fas’ta sıcağı, renkleri merak eden de bir ağabeyi. Piyanosunun başında şarkılar söyleyen bir anneleri, yaptığı işlerde dikiş tutturamayan babaları.. Ama en kötüsü, ülkelerine adım adım yaklaşan......more