Åsne Seierstad - One of Us

“An exhaustive account… This book throws a great deal of light on the life and times of a miserable killer.”

“This is journalism at its very best… Undoubtedly Seierstad’s most powerful narrative to date.”

“An astonishing piece of work… One of Us looks straight at horror and doesn’t flinch: it is classic reporting… We need to take note.”

“Scrupulously researched… [Seierstad] has a remarkable eye for the haunting detail, particularly of empathy, and of grief.”

“Powerful… It’s hard to see how, as a definitive account of what happened that awful July day, it could ever be bettered.”

“[A] masterful and forensically detailed account of what may be the first cultural-ideological spree killing in history.”

“A stunningly good piece of journalism… a rich and timely study.”

“Seierstad’s enormously well written depictions of the perpetrator, the victims, and the Norway where this could happen makes the abstract real and shows us that the most horrible things can take place among all that we perceive as safe and normal. The wounds from Utøya will not heal on its own. They need Åsne Seierstad’s brave, sensitive, and competent treatment. Seierstad succeeds in writing the dead back to life, even though the story inexorably pushes them to a tragic ending.”

“It is a broad, well written, and important story, in form and writing much like a novel. Seierstad follows some of the people whose destinies abruptly cross one another on the island of Utøya, partly the perpetrator and partly some of his victims. She meets them all with compassion, at eye level—a close-up technique that makes the moment when the bullets start to fly almost unbearable. I have seldom read a depiction of violence under such great agony.”

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Copyright © 2013 by Åsne Seierstad

Translation copyright © 2015 by Sarah Death

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Originally published in Norwegian in 2013 by Kagge, Norway, as En av oss

English translation originally published in 2015 by Virago Press, Great Britain

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015932749

Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-374-27789-5

E-book ISBN: 978-0-374-71020-0