We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen is an spellbinding ... Albert mentors the young Knud Erik, the hero of the second half of the book. Much like life this is not a tidy book.

Linnea Hartsuyker’s novel “The Half-Drowned King” raises the question, what was happening back home in the Viking homelands? Especially in Norway? She has a great deal of material to work ...

In Danish author Carsten Jensen’s epic novel “We, the Drowned,” these themes are accompanied by a strong sense of the peculiarities of human nature. This first novel by a noted journalist ...

Jensen, the son of a sailor, has set We, the Drowned in the Danish port city of Marstal, where generations of his own family have lived their lives and shore leaves. As butch a book as this is ...