Carsten Jensen

Ganador del premio más prestigioso de Dinamarca —Danske Banks Litteraturpris— y elegido por los lectores del Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten como mejor novela danesa de los últimos veinticinco años, Nos

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An epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion by one of Scandinavia's most acclaimed storytellers.In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same again. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas.As soon as he is old enough, his son Albert sets off in search of his missing father on a voyage that will take him to the furthest reaches of the globe and into the clutches of the most nefarious company. Bearing a mysterious shrunken head, and plagued by premonitions of bloodshed, he returns to a town increasingly run by women - among them a widow intent on liberating all men from the tyranny of the sea.From the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the roughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, We, The Drowned spans four generations, two world wars and a hundred years. Carsten Jensen conjures a wise, humorous, thrilling story of fathers and sons, of the women they love and leave behind, and of the sea's murderous promise. This is a novel destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature.

Carsten Jensen est né en 1952 à Marstal (Danemark). Ancien journaliste, il est aujourd’hui considéré comme l’un des plus grands auteurs danois contemporains par sa voix et son style inimitables. Il f

In 1848, the young men of Marstal leave their Danish island town to fight in the First Schleswig War, and the sea begins to claim them. Set in the Danish seafaring town of Marstal from 1848 to the end of the Second World War, We, The Drowned follows three generations shaped by salt water, violence, and absence. Laurids Madsen returns from battle restless and drawn back to the ocean. His son Albert grows up in the shadow of a father who belongs more to the sea than to his family, while Knud Erik Friis comes of age during the world wars, inheriting both pride and loss. Ships sink, wars erupt, and fortunes collapse as men are lost to shipwreck, combat, and ambition. Women become the authority at home; children grow up without fathers and the identity of the town begins to shift. Spanning the First Schleswig War and both World War I and World War II, We, The Drowned is nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical fiction full of adventure, longing, and the relentless pull of the sea. Impressive... rich, powerful and rewarding Financial Times An epic tale Independent A book to sail into, to explore, to get lost in, but it is also a book that brings the reader, dazzled by wonders, home to the heart from which great stories come Joseph OConnor

Con la sensación de vivir en un planenta que, inmerso en una gigantesca transformación, clama por un nuevo redescubrimiento, Carsten Jensen abandona Dinamarca en un frío y húmedo día de enero para dar la vuelta al mundo. Recorre paises que han sido escenario de guerras, genocidios y catastrofes, pero no va siguiendo unicamente la pista de la maldad, sino tambien la de la bondad. El dramatico encuentro entre fuerzas destructivas y constructivas.

El librero recomienda Nosotros los ahogados “El hambre por lo desconocido es el motor de esta historia que te llevará a recorrer el mar del Norte de la mano de personajes inolvidables que habitan en