Rent To Siberia

Synopsis

Per Petterson's raw, poetic novel follows the intense kinship and agonizing separation of a brother and sister in World War II-era Denmark. Their parents' neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small village as young children, dreaming of a different life. The sister fantasizes about escaping to Siberia, but that dream seems ever more remote as her brother becomes a young man, and disappears into the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation. Their separation begins years of wandering for her.

First published in English in 1998, To Siberia is a portrait of a sister and brother bound together powerfully by birth, and separated painfully by circumstance.

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