{"product_id":"the-unworthy-9781529436112","title":"The Unworthy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying documents and stealing like magpies. And they don't shy away from targeting the Enemy, either. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut everything changes when Carl's father hands him a secret map and a German password, just hours before he's taken away by the Quisling police - only to return in a coffin. And when Olav's father also disappears, the gang come to see that they are caught up in something far more serious than their usual petty crimes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Unworthy\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e. It shines a light on a brutal aspect of the war rarely explored in fiction, and every sentence is imbued with decades of accumulated wisdom from a writer who had his own brushes with the law in his youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for \u003ci\u003eSeierherren\u003c\/i\u003ee in 1991, and \u003ci\u003eFrost\u003c\/i\u003e in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel T\u003ci\u003ehe Burnt-Out Town of Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in a bestselling historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676166947090,"sku":"9781529436112","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b45fa3c-7634-4958-9caf-43906a9993b0.jpg?v=1761047619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-unworthy-9781529436112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}