![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his exciting and harrowing quest to find his father - and beyond - the boots serve Albert well. He never returns.įor many of the Marstallers, life in the town is about waiting - for a loved one to return, or, in the case of its boys, to be old enough to set sail. When the battle is over, he takes off on what his wife thinks is just another job. At the center of the action is Laurids Madsen, who, as a father of four, has already spent many years at sea before he is thrown into fiery battle and is traumatized by the experience. ![]() But it makes for a dramatic introduction to the charming characters that populate this book. Marstal is thrown into the only naval battle of the conflict, and it's a stalemate at that. The story begins in 1848 with the outbreak of the First Schleswig War, a three-year battle between Denmark and Germany. Like in any typical small town, the populace of Marstal is concerned, nosy and, above all, patriotic, making it the ideal narrator of this engrossing hundred-year tale. The "we" in the title of Danish author Carsten Jensen's We, the Drowned, an international bestseller just released in the U.S., is the citizenry of Marstal, a small town on the Danish island of Ærø - where sailing around the world on freighters is the addictive way of life for the men and a torturous waiting game for the wives and mothers they leave behind. ![]()
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