About the book: 2009 / The novel "It's time to take the horses away" by the Norwegian Per Petterson (b. 1952) became a literary sensation. The author was awarded the world's most prestigious award for prose writing, the IMPAC International Prize, in 2007, beating out such eminent rivals as Salman Rushdie and 2003 Nobel laureate John Coetzee. Critics especially note the language of the novel - P. Petterson is considered one of the best Norwegian stylists. Wartime, the Resistance movement, a love drama - one woman and two men. The story is told from the perspective of a modern man, remembering his childhood and his father - one of these two men.