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On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

Den norske journalist og forfatter Åsne Seierstads enestående evne til at komme helt tæt de personer, hun portrætterer, og samtidig beskrive en af samtidens store konflikter, foldes atter ud - nu i bogen "To Søstre". I den har Åsne Seierstad på nærmeste hold fulgt en norsk-somalisk families opløsning, da de to søstre i familien lader sig hverve som Jihad-brude i Kalifatet. En oktoberdag i 2013 forlader søstrene Ayan og Leila deres hjem i en lille norsk by.

Bloomsbury presents The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad, read by Laila Pyne. A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation." —Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity “A...