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The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2015
On Sale: April 21, 2015
544 pages
ISBN: 0374277893
EAN: 9780374277895
Kindle: B00O7AU8O2
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Non-Fiction Biography | Non-Fiction
A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that
upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country
back together 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? 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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