�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.
Named among the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book
Review, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Publishers
Weekly, and Men's Journal Finalist for the New York Public
Library's 2016 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in
Journalism "One of Us has the feel of a nonfiction novel. Like
Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Truman Capote's In Cold
Blood, it has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal
murders and, by implication, sheds light on the society partly
responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully
written, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . .
" --Eric Schlosser, The New York Times Book Review "The roughly 70
pages Ms. Seierstad devotes to [the attacks] are harrowing in their
forensic exactitude . . . These scenes are balanced by moments of
tremendous heroism, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't read the
final half of One of Us with perpetually moist cheeks . . . The
nonfiction horror story told in One of Us moves slowly, inexorably
and with tremendous authority." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"Engrossing, important . . . There are many, many indelible images
in Seierstad's account . . . As hard as it is to read about the
attack, as frustrating as it is to learn how many delaying mistakes
the first responders made and as monstrous as Breivik is, [his
victims] on that island that day were beautiful in their idealism.
They deserve to be witnessed, which is the ultimate reason to read
One of Us." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air" "One of Us is a
masterpiece of journalism, a deeply painful chronicle of an
inexplicable and horrifying attack that we'll likely never
understand . . .[A] brilliant, unforgettable book." --Michael
Schaub, NPR "One Of Us reads like a true crime novel, but it has
the journalistic chops to back it up . . . Not only a stunning
achievement in journalism, it's a touchstone on how to write about
tragedy with detail, honesty, and compassion." --Samantha Edwards,
A.V. Club "Unforgettable." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "A
vivid, thoroughly researched, and suspenseful account of the 2011
massacre that killed 77 people in her native Norway . . . The book
features evocative portraits of some of the victims and brims with
vivid descriptions of the villages, city squares, buildings, and
fjords of Norway, touching on the country's politics, changing
demographics, and cultural shifts. With a reporter's passion for
details and a novelist's sense of story, Seierstad's book is at
once an unforgettable account of a national tragedy and a lively
portrait of contemporary Norway." --Publishers Weekly (starred
review) "Asne Seierstad's One of Us is almost unbearable to read
and absolutely impossible to turn away from: its account of an
unthinkable tragedy is reported with staggering rigor and recounted
with grace. It's hard to leave this book without feeling incredible
grief, without feeling shaken to the core, without feeling urged
toward essential questions about what we call evil and how it comes
to pass." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
"A chilling descent into the mind of mass murderer Anders Breivik .
. . [Seierstad's] explorations of Breivik . . . have the unsettling
quality that readers will associate with novelist Stieg Larsson . .
. [One of Us] packs all the frightening power of a good horror
novel." --Kirkus Reviews "An exhaustive account . . . This book
throws a great deal of light on the life and times of a miserable
killer." --Ian Buruma, The Guardian "This is journalism at its very
best . . . Undoubtedly Seierstad's most powerful narrative to
date." --Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times "An astonishing piece
of work . . . One of Us looks straight at horror and doesn't
flinch: it is classic reporting . . . We need to take note."
--David Sexton, London Evening Standard "Scrupulously researched .
. . [Seierstad] has a remarkable eye for the haunting detail,
particularly of empathy, and of grief." --Craig Brown, Daily Mail
"Powerful . . . It's hard to see how, as a definitive account of
what happened that awful July day, it could ever be bettered."
--Eilis O'Hanlon, Irish Independent "[A] masterful and forensically
detailed account of what may be the first cultural-ideological
spree killing in history." --Stav Sherez, The Telegraph "A
stunningly good piece of journalism . . .a rich and timely study."
--Jonathan Green, Sydney Morning Herald "Seierstad's enormously
well written depictions of the perpetrator, the victims, and the
Norway where this could happen makes the abstract real and shows us
that the most horrible things can take place among all that we
perceive as safe and normal. The wounds from Ut�ya will not heal on
its own. They need �sne Seierstad's brave, sensitive, and competent
treatment." --Sam Sundgren, Svenska Dagbladet "It is a broad, well
written, and important story, in form and writing much like a
novel. Seierstad follows some of the people whose destinies
abruptly cross one another on the island of Ut�ya, partly the
perpetrator and partly some of his victims. She meets them all with
compassion, at eye level--a close-up technique that makes the
moment when the bullets start to fly almost unbearable." --Lars
Linder, Dagens Nyheter
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