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En av oss

Pages
562
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's 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 country's governing Labour Party.

In [this book], 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 Europe's 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?"--Dust jacket flap.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (4)
ViolenceGraphic ViolenceGun ViolenceTrauma

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