{"product_id":"one-of-us-9780374536091","title":"One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- And Its Aftermath","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOne of Us by Åsne Seierstad - Award-Winning True Crime Investigation\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e, and now the basis for the Netflix film \u003ci\u003e22 July\u003c\/i\u003e, from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWidely acclaimed as a masterpiece, Åsne Seierstad's \u003ci\u003eOne of Us\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This True Crime Investigation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In \u003ci\u003eOne of Us\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eInvestigative Journalism at Its Finest\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in her international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller of Kabul\u003c\/i\u003e, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik's childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist, a successful entrepreneur, and then an Internet game addict and self-styled master warrior who believed he could save Europe from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik's victims, tracing their political awakenings, teenage flirtations and hopes, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya and relates what happened there, we know both the killer and those he will kill. In the book's final act, Seierstad describes Breivik's tumultuous public trial. As Breivik took the stand and articulated his ideas, an entire country debated whether he should be deemed insane, and asked why a devastating sequence of police errors allowed one man to do so much harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy Read One of Us\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne of Us\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a psychological study of violent extremism, a dramatic true crime procedural, and a compassionate inquiry into how a privileged society copes with homegrown evil. Lauded in Scandinavia for its literary merit and moral poise, \u003ci\u003eOne of Us\u003c\/i\u003e is the true story of one of our age's most tragic events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÅsne Seierstad\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller of Kabul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAngel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Oslo, Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680560451858,"sku":"9780374536091","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee9e6971-bf33-467a-ae66-bd9dda92fd31.jpg?v=1734922766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-of-us-9780374536091","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}