One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Resumen del libro

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 Ut ya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist sne 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 Ut ya, 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.

Biografía del autor

Nacida en 1970, la noruega sne Seierstad es una de las corresponsales de prensa más prestigiosas del mundo. Tras estudiar ruso, español y filosofía en su país natal, empezó a trabajar como corresponsal para distintos periódicos en zonas en conflicto. Fruto de su estancia en Afganistán, publicó el libro El librero de Kabul, un éxito mundial con más de dos millones de ejemplares vendidos.