We, the Drowned (Signed First Edition)

Jensen, Carsten

ISBN 10: 0151013772 / ISBN 13: 9780151013777

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2011

About this Item

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($28.00). SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in 2011 (name and date only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel, translated from the Danish.

Seller Inventory # Signed-Fiction-62

Bibliographic Details

• Title: We, the Drowned (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151013772
• ISBN 13: 9780151013777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Danish Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, and miraculous survivals. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel in the vein of Conrad and Melville, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea.

About the Author

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.