Research Catalog

Title

One of us : the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway / Åsne Seierstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death.

Author

Seierstad, Åsne, 1970-

Publication

• New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Death, Sarah

Description

xiii, 530 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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? Seierstad 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.

Uniform Title

En av oss. English

Alternative Title

• En av oss.
• Story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway
• Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway

Subjects

• Massacres
• Bombings
• Islamophobia
• Norway > Utøya
• Islamophobia > Norway
• Domestic terrorism > Norway
• Massacres > Norway > Utøya
• Terrorism > Norway
• Mass murder > Norway
• Breivik, Anders Behring, 1979-
• Norway > Oslo
• Bombings > Norway > Oslo

Note

• Translation, from Norwegian, of: En av oss.
• "Originally published in Norwegian in 2013 by Kagge, Norway, as En av oss"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528).

Contents

A new life (1979) -- Swirls of light -- Changes in the country -- Silkestrå -- Peeing on the stairs -- Al-Anfal -- Our children -- Young dreams -- To Damascus -- Asking for protection -- A place on the list -- "High quality fake diplomas!!" -- Choose yourself a world -- Three comrades -- Writings -- The book -- How can I get your life? -- Don't make friends with anyone before you get there! -- Patriots and tyrants -- Not just an outfit -- The President's speech -- Poison -- The chemist's log -- All we could dream of -- Summer fever -- I love you -- Friday -- When it's all over -- Does your child have any distinguishing features? -- But never naivety -- Narcissus on stage -- The monologue -- The heart of the matter -- The will to live -- Psycho seminar -- The verdict -- The mountain -- Weaver's heaven -- The sentence.

Call Number

JFE 15-8219

ISBN

• 9780374277895
• 0374277893
• 9780374536091

LCCN

2015932749

OCLC

879582758

Author

Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- author.

Title

One of us : the story of Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway / Åsne Seierstad ; translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Death.

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First American edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528).

Added Author

Death, Sarah, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8219