Carsten Jensen

The WLT Book Club llA' . Juli Zeh's international best-seller is an intellectual thriller set in Ger many and Switzerland in which the friendship of two physicists is test ed after the apparent kidnapping of one of their sons. Zeh's first novel, Eagles and Angels, won the German Book Prize and was nominated for the Interna tional IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Zeh formerly worked for the United Nations in Krakow and New York and now lives in Brandenburg. Join WLT in reading what Bri gitte magazine called "unorthodox, nerve-racking, simply unforgetta ble?like a Hitchcock masterpiece." And be sure to visit WLT's website (worldliteraturetoday.com) for discussion questions and a report by Chris Dearner from the Musik f Festspiele in Bernau, and discuss the book with other readers on WLT's Facebook page. Carsten Jensen Born in Marstal, Denmark, Carsten Jensen's early life reads like an adventure story. Sailing on a freighter owned by his father, Jensen experienced a childhood about which most young boys only dream. As an adult, Jensen has led an equally adventurous life, reporting from foreign countries as a journalist and political correspondent A decade ago, Jensen returned to his boyhood home to pen the award-winning novel We, the Drowned. The novel is set in Marstal and chronicles the experiences of its inhabitants over one hundred years as they face love, death, violence, and the advent of the First World War*Jensen won the Olof Palme prize for the novel, which has been a best-seller throughout Scandinavia and Germany and is now available in English in the UK. - Compiled by Sara Brown "We, the Drowned makes us appreciate?in vivid detail?how our present lives in commercially suc cussful societies rest even now on horrific exploitation of the inarticulate, often compelled to commit acts whose savage violence we would rather forget" - The Independent July-August 2010 i

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