Book : One Of Us The Story Of A Massacre In Norway -- And...

-Titulo Original : One Of Us The Story Of A Massacre In Norway -- And Its Aftermath

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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About the Author Åsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of The Bookseller of Kabul, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, and Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya. She lives in Oslo, Norway.Sarah Death is a translator, literary scholar, and editor of the UK-based journal Swedish Book Review. She lives and works in Kent, England. One of The New York Times Book Reviews Ten Best Books of 2015 and a New York Times bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, from acclaimed filmmaker Paul GreengrassWidely acclaimed as a masterpiece, Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent.On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime ministers office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the countrys governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europes most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?As in her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breiviks childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist, a successful entrepreneur, and then an Internet game addict and self-styled master warrior who believed he could save Europe from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breiviks victims, tracing their political awakenings, teenage flirtations and hopes, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya and relates what happened there, we know both the killer and those he will kill. In the books final act, Seierstad describes Breiviks tumultuous public trial. As Breivik took the stand and articulated his ideas, an entire country debated whether he should be deemed insane, and asked why a devastating sequence of police errors allowed one man to do so much harm.One of Us is at once a psychological study of violent extremism, a dramatic true crime procedural, and a compassionate inquiry into how a privileged society copes with homegrown evil. Lauded in Scandinavia for its literary merit and moral poise, One of Us is the true story of one of our ages most tragic events. Review Named among the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly, and Men’s JournalFinalist for the New York Public Librarys 2016 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism“One of Us has the feel of a nonfiction novel. Like Norman Mailers The Executioners Song and Truman Capotes In Cold Blood, it has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and, by implication, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . ” Eric Schlosser, The New York Times Book Review“The roughly 70 pages Ms. Seierstad devotes to [the attacks] are harrowing in their forensic exactitude . . . These scenes are balanced by moments of tremendous heroism, and Id be lying if I said I didnt read the final half of One of Us with perpetually moist cheeks . . . The nonfiction horror story told in One of Us moves slowly, inexorably and with tremendous authority.” Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Engrossing, important . . . There are many, many indelible images in Seierstads account . . . As hard as it is to read abo