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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. We, The Drowned is an epic novel about generations of men who go to sea and the women and children they leave behind. Filled with adventure, cannibals, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, tragedies, love and survival -- this book takes its place among the greatest seafaring literature.

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"""We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war's confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike...Powerful reading for a long winter's night...[A] gorgeous, unsparing novel."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""'Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land?' asks our narrator--and we know the answer. An elegant meditation on life, death, and the ways of the sea."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""A generational saga, a swashbuckling sailor's tale, and the account of a small town coming into modernity--both Melville and Steinbeck might have been pleased to read it."" -- ""New Republic"" ""An epic of grand design."" -- ""San Francisco Chronicle"" ""An unforgettable novel, destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature."" -- ""Amazon.com"" ""From adventures on the storm-ravaged seas and in exotic lands to battles in town over the shipping industry and family life, dozens of stories coalesce into an odyssey taut with action and drama and suffused with enough heart to satisfy readers who want more than the breakneck thrills of ships battling the elements."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Jensen's novel builds momentum and becomes quite thrilling and engaging on many levels, from adventures on the high seas to devastating personal dramas in a small community at the mercy of the forces of nature and history."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Jensen's oceanic novel is tenderly human...Jensen's resplendent saga, an epic voyage of the imagination, is mesmerizing in its unsparing drama, fascinating in its knowledge of the sea, wryly humorous, and profound in its embrace of compassion, reason, and justice."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""The author ennobles the old-fashioned art of storytelling by showing how the relating of a tale can itself foster a spirit of fellowship... We, The Drowned is itself a monument to the way that history can be made epic through legend."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Vast and daring...rich, powerful, and rewarding...one of the more engrossing literary voyages of recent years."" -- ""Financial Times (London)"""

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As a boy in Marstal, Denmark, CARSTEN JENSEN sailed on his father's boat, a 220-ton freighter named the Abelone. In 2000, he returned to Marstal to write We, the Drowned. He has also worked as a literary critic and a journalist, reporting from China, Cambodia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and Afghanistan. We, the Drowned won Denmark's most important literary prize, while also being selected by readers of a major daily newspaper as the best Danish novel of the last twenty-five years. It was a bestseller throughout Scandinavia and in Germany, and has also been published in the United Kingdom, Spain, and France. Charlotte Barslund has translated several Norwegian and Danish writers, including Jo Nesb� and Karin Fossum. Her translation of Per Petterson's I Curse The River of Time was shortlisted for the Independent 2011 Foreign Fiction award, and that of Carsten Jensen's We, the Drowned was nominated for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

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