Danish author Carsten Jensen’s international bestselling novel We, the Drowned has been published in more than twenty countries and sold more than half a million copies worldwide. He has also written several critically acclaimed travelogues, including I Have Seen the World Begin, which won the Golden Laurel, the most coveted literary prize in Denmark. Jensen has reported on war in the Balkans and Afghanistan, the atrocities committed, and the political motivation behind Danish presence in these war zones, and he was awarded the prestigious Olof Palme Prize for his “work, in word and deed, to defend the weak and vulnerable as well in his own country as around the world.”
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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 th... SEE MORE