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One of The New York Times Book Reviews Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller
Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, sne Seierstads One of Us is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent.
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime ministers office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the countrys governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist sne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europes 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?
As in her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breiviks 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 Breiviks victims, tracing their political awakenings, teenage flirtations and hopes, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utya and relates what happened there, we know both the killer and those he will kill. In the books final act, Seierstad describes Breiviks 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.
One of Us 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, One of Us is the true story of one of our ages most tragic events.
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sne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of The Bookseller of Kabul , One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal , and Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya . She lives in Oslo, Norway. You can sign up for email updates here.
ALSO BY SNE SEIERSTAD
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
The Bookseller of Kabul
Everything in this book is based on testimony. All the scenes are constructed according to witnesses accounts.
Anders Behring Breiviks childhood and adolescence is told through a number of sources, including his mother and father, friends, family and his own accounts to the police and in court. I have also had access to all reports about his childhood from the Oslo social services.
When it comes to the planning of his act of terror, I have, in addition to other sources, used his diary and log from the manifesto. When I refer to what he thinks in certain situations, and how he feels about them, it is always based on what he has himself said. Often I have quoted him directly and used his exact words; at other times more indirectly, just referring to what he has recounted.
The other sources from Utya are the surviving victims. They have shared their stories and observations with me, their thoughts and feelings. Together with the perpetrators accounts, this made it possible to reconstruct the terror attack minute by minute.
There is a longer review of my working methods in the epilogue at the end of the book.
sne Seierstad
Oslo, 12 November 2014
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We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.
Hjalmar Sderberg, Doktor Glas , 1905
It was one of those clear, cold winter days when Oslo glistens. The sun, which people had almost forgotten, made the snow sparkle. Keen skiers cast long looks out of their office windows, up to the white hilltop, the ski jump and the blue sky.
Homebodies cursed the temperature of minus twelve, and if obliged to venture out they went with a shiver, in thick fur coats and lined boots. Children were bundled up in several layers of wool under their quilted snowsuits. There were shrieks and squeals from the toboggan slopes in the playgrounds of the kindergartens that had opened everywhere as more and more women started working full time.
Piled along the fences round the hospital grounds there were towering heaps of snow, ploughed from roads and pavements. The cold made the snow creak beneath the feet of those passing the old hospital building in the north of the city.
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