One of Us

✍ Scribed by Seierstad, Asne

• Book ID: 110464122
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 482 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780374277895

✦ Synopsis

**A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together
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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...