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One of Us : The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

by Åsne Seierstad
One of Us : The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway - Thryft
One of Us : The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway - Thryft
  • Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee for Excellence in Journalism (2016)
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung (2018)
  • ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

One of Us : The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

by Åsne Seierstad

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ISBN: 9781844089208
Authors: Åsne Seierstad
Publisher: Virago
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics
Related Topics: Politics, Biography, Politics, Biography Memoir, History, Biography, Biography Memoir, Journalism
Goodreads rating: 4.42
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A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back togetherOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway’s governing Labour Party. In The Island, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?     As in her bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik’s troubled childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist and Internet game addict, and then an entrepreneur, Freemason, and self-styled master warrior who sought to “save Norway” from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik’s victims, tracing their political awakenings, aspirations to improve their country, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya, we know both the killer and those he will kill. We have also gotten to know an entire country—famously peaceful and prosperous, and utterly incapable of protecting its youth.
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  • Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee for Excellence in Journalism (2016)
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung (2018)
  • ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction Nominee (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.