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We, the Drowned

Carsten Jensen

Hardcover | Pages: 678 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 7527 Users | 1044 Reviews

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Title	:	We, the Drowned
Author	:	Carsten Jensen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 678 pages
Published	:	February 9th 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Denmark

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It is 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. 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.

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Original Title:	Vi, de druknede
ISBN:	0151013772 (ISBN13: 9780151013777)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Denmark
Literary Awards:	Danske Banks Litteraturpris (2007)

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Bulgarian review below/Ревюто на български е по-долу If you stand on the deck of your life and look at the horizon, you will see them emerge. The spectres dwelling in the past and the drowned inhabiting the present. You will see how the surf is trying to cast them ashore on some marooned coast, but they are always there reminding you of themselves, and theres no other way. Because they are us. We, the drowned.Despite its volume, the novel has a lace structure and the text breathes lightly.



Like any self-respecting Minnesotan, I grew up loving the water. During our three warm months, I would fish, swim, and water ski. During our nine cold months, I would ice fish, drunk-swim, and ice-water-ski. But I dont need to interact with the water. I enjoy it just as much if not more on a passive basis. Just plop me down on a beach with a book and a beer, and Ive found my heaven. Water, you see, invites one to contemplate; it soothes the soul; it stirs the imagination. (Also, so does beer).

I stumbled upon this book in the library of a little town I was staying in over the weekend. I can't resist multi-generational epics because I love books that make you feel like you just completed a long, long journey when you finish them and I can't resist books about the sea because when I was five, all I wanted to be was a pirate and I never really lost that. Therefore, I borrowed it with the intent of reading it over the weekend and returning it before I left town, but well, those plans

We, the Drowned is a compilation of the stories of people, places, and ships, that covers a period of almost a century and tells the story of a few thousand people. Starting off with the war between Denmark and Germany in 1846 and the story of Laurids Madsen, it curves forward in time through World Wars I and II and Madsens son Albert, his acquaintance with a young boy (grown man at the end of the book) Knud Erik, and the thousands of people living in Marstal an important port and seafaring

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Call us Ishmael.It takes almost 100 pages until I'm struck by this strange, recurring "we." After all, it's not as if the narrator takes up a lot of room in Carsten Jensen's 700-page novel; for the most part, We, The Drowned is narrated in the same way as many other novels with no clear protagonist, some sort of omnicient storyteller who never gets personal, never says "I" or reveals his or her name. It's just that the reader is occasionally reminded that this story, the history of the little