We, the Drowned Lib/E (Audiobook)

from missizicks

What an incredible book. Horrifying and hopeful in equal measure. It is a fiction, but it is born out of fact. Jensen has researched the history of Danish shipping town Marstal and woven a beautiful tale of all that is good and bad in humanity. I didn't think I was going to enjoy it at first. The...

from spounds

I have decided that 2014 is not going to be the year that I try to get twenty books off my "to-read" list. It's going to be the year that I read long books. We, the Drowned is the first of my epics, and it is a dandy. About a year ago I was sequestered in a hotel somewhere in LA waiting for Brian...

from psychedelicmicrobus

Amazing novel- I was hooked from the first line, and I loved every second of it. I'd love to be able to read it in the original Danish. I'll be looking out for more of Carsten Jensen's work.

from jphamilton

I found this a wonderful read. It's one that just kept me eagerly turning all those pages. It's a fine sea-going tale of generations of men in a small town that live and die on or under the sea. I've never lived on the ocean (just a lake in Vermont) but I now share the salty aired history of thes...

from BlackSheepDances

Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund with Emma Ryder "War was like sailing. You could learn about clouds, wind direction, and currents, but the sea remained forever unpredictable. All you could do was adapt to it and try to return home alive." Carsten Jensen was already noted as a jou...