Ebook {Epub PDF} We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

WE, THE DROWNED is the title of an adventurous novel by Carsten Jensen, about the greatness and fall of Marstal, his city of birth – a tale about bold sailors, who Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · 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 www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen There's a sameness about the lives of sailors before the mast and miners below ground and whether you drown at sea when a ship goes down in a howling gail or die of starvation and foul air after a mine collapse the result is the /5().

Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town. 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. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen There's a sameness about the lives of sailors before the mast and miners below ground and whether you drown at sea when a ship goes down in a howling gail or die of starvation and foul air after a mine collapse the result is the same and men feel powerless to act in their own defence. In spite of this. Carsten Jensen's debut novel has taken the world by storm. Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, whose inhabitants have sailed the world's oceans aboard freight ships for centuries. Spanning over a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War, and from the barren rocks of Newfoundland to.

It covers sailors experiences over three wars. Carsten Jensen researched the history of Marstal and the stories are loosely based on true events. “That’s the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can’t share it.”-Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned. 25 comments. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen There's a sameness about the lives of sailors before the mast and miners below ground and whether you drown at sea when a ship goes down in a howling gail or die of starvation and foul air after a mine collapse the result is the same and men feel powerless to act in their own defence. His “we” is rather like the chorus of Greek tragedy—homogeneous and boundless, sometimes judging and always interpreting. The “we” of We, the Drowned is a haunting voice—a whole.