Showing results for "Carsten Jensen" in Genre Fiction

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. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, 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.

Carsten Jensen erzählt von Menschen, deren Leben vom Meer bestimmt ist. Von Männern, die ihrer Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und Abenteuer folgen, und von Frauen, die dem Meer, das ihnen die Männer und die Söhne raubt, den Kampf ansagen. "Wir Ertrunkenen" ist ein großes Hörbuch über Liebe, Freundschaft, Verlust und Wahnsinn, voller Satanskerle, Glücksritter, Leichtmatrosen und starker Frauen.

Dispatched to fight the Taliban as part of the NATO forces, the soldiers of the Third Platoon arrive in a desert hell intent on testing their courage and endurance. Among them are the charismatic platoon leader Schrøder, a former games designer fascinated by the imaginative potential of war; Colonel Steffensen, whose negotiating tactics will have deadly consequences; Sidekick, the LifeLogger whose online “war memorial” will blur into horror; and the hardened but vulnerable Hannah, who must bury her womanhood - or sacrifice her soul.