One of us : the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway / Åsne Seierstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death.
Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- author.; Death, Sarah, translator.
2015
HV6433.N6 S45413 2015 (Mapit)
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Title One of us : the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway / Åsne Seierstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death.
Author Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- author.
Uniform Title En av oss. English
Edition First American edition.
ISBN 9780374277895 hardcover
0374277893 hardcover
9780374710200 electronic book
Published New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Language Note Translation, from Norwegian, of: En av oss.
Description xiii, 530 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number HV6433.N6 S45413 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.325
Summary On 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 One of Us, 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? Seierstad 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.
Note "Originally published in Norwegian in 2013 by Kagge, Norway, as En av oss"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528).
Added Author Death, Sarah, translator.
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