Åsne Seierstad

The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home. ?sne Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom. This is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.

A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad

Two Sisters

A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist? As in her bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik's troubled childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist and Internet game addict, and then an entrepreneur, Freemason, and self-styled master warrior who sought to "save Norway" from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik's victims, tracing their political awakenings, aspirations to improve their country, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya, we know both the killer and those he will kill. We have also gotten to know an entire country—famously peaceful and prosperous, and utterly incapable of protecting its youth.

The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

One of Us

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, from acclaimed filmmaker Paul Greengrass Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent. On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and its reverberations. How did Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become Europe's most reviled terrorist? How did he accomplish an astonishing one-man murder spree? And how did a famously peaceful and prosperous country cope with the slaughter of so many of its young? As in her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik's childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist, a successful entrepreneur, and then an Internet game addict and self-styled master warrior who believed he could save Europe from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik's victims, tracing their political awakenings, teenage flirtations and hopes, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya and relates what happened there, we know both the killer and those he will kill. In the book's final act, Seierstad describes Breivik's tumultuous public trial. As Breivik took the stand and articulated his ideas, an entire country debated whether he should be deemed insane, and asked why a devastating sequence of police errors allowed one man to do so much harm. One of Us is at once a psychological study of violent extremism, a dramatic true crime procedural, and a compassionate inquiry into how a privileged society copes with homegrown evil. Lauded in Scandinavia for its literary merit and moral poise, One of Us is the true story of one of our age's most tragic events.

The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- and Its Aftermath

Om de berørte fra massakren på Utøya og om drabsmanden Anders Behring Breivik

en fortelling om Norge

En av oss

To søstre sier til foreldrene sine at de skal besøke en venninne. Isteden reiser de til Syria. Dette er historien om to tenåringer som velger bort det trygge livet i Norge for å slutte seg til IS. Den forteller også om farens desperate kamp for å finne dem. I tillegg til å være en personlig historie, er det en beretning om fremmedgjøring og ekstremisme. Hvorfor blir ungdom som vokser opp i Vesten radikalisert? Åsne Seierstad kommer tett inn på personene hun skriver om, og forteller både om de to jentene, en islamsk vekkelse, et land i krig og en familie som faller fra hverandre. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

To søstre

På baggrund af interviews med familie, venner og lærer undersøger forfatteren, hvad der fik to teenagepiger til at stikke af hjemmefra og slutte sig til Islamisk Stat i Syrien

To Søstre

Hösten 2001 reser journalisten Åsne Seierstad till Afghanistan för att skriva om människorna i ett trasigt land under uppbyggnad.Talibanerna har nyligen flytt och ett stort hopp hägrar. En dag träff ar hon en bokhandlare som bjuder hem henne till sin familj: hans två fruar, hans söner och döttrar, mamma och systrar. Efter ett par besök erbjuder han henne att stanna en tid. "Bokhandlaren i Kabul" (2002) är Åsne Seierstads debut och stora genombrott som författare. Det är en berättelse om bokhandlarens liv och öde, men också en skildring av talibanernas våldsamma styre. Åsne Seierstad, prisbelönt norsk journalist och författare, har varit korrespondent i Ryssland och Kina och bland annat rapporterat från krigshärdar på Balkan, i Afghanistan och Irak.

Bokhandlaren i Kabul

Diederik (Diederik Christoph) Grit

De Noorse oorlogscorrespondente, die vlak na het verdrijven van het Talibanbewind enige maanden bij een Afghaanse familie woonde, geeft met name een beeld van het leven van de vrouw.

een familie in Afghanistan

De boekhandelaar van Kaboel

A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad

De boekhandelaar van Kaboel / druk 1

En oktoberdag 2013 försvinner plötsligt två välartade tonårsflickor från sitt hem i Norge. Deras föräldrar pendlar mellan panik och förtvivlan. Vad kan ha hänt dem? Så kommer chockbeskedet: de har gått över gränsen till Syrien. Men deras far är inte typen som ger upp. Orädd ger han sig in i det krigshärjade landet på jakt efter sina döttrar. Vilka är systrarna Ayan och Leila? Vad förde dem från en trygg tillvaro i ett litet norskt samhälle till kalifatet i Raqqa? I Två systrar ger sig Åsne Seierstad, den bästsäljande och kritikerrosade författaren till Bokhandlaren i Kabul och En av oss, i kast med en av vår tids viktigaste och mest komplicerade frågor. Varför radikaliseras muslimska ungdomar som växer upp i väst? Vilka är de människor som söker värvning i IS? Som få andra lyckas Åsne Seierstad komma nära inpå de människor hon skriver om. Två systrar är berättelsen om flickorna som reste, om en islamsk väckelse, om ett land i krig och om en familj som faller isär. Översättare: Jan Stolpe, Formgivare: Sara R. Acedo

Ett reportage

Två systrar

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. ?sne Seierstad reported regularly on the war, describing its effects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst the violence. In 2006 and 2007 she returned, travelling in secret, in constant danger. The tragedy of Chechnya had continued but the world had moved on. In a broken and devastated society she meets the orphans, the wounded, the lost - and tells their stories at last.

Inside Chechnya

The Angel of Grozny

International reporter Asne Seierstad pens a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic--during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed.

Portraits from Serbia

With Their Backs to the World

Două surori

povestea lui Anders Breivik şi a masacrului din Norvegia

Unul dintre noi

An international phenomenon translated into 17 languages, "The Bookseller of Kabul" has become not only the bestselling nonfiction book ever published in the author's native Norway, but also a tremendous success throughout Europe and around the world.

The Bookseller of Kabul

This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of bookseller Sultan Khan. Sultan has lived through several repressive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.

Księgarz z Kabulu

Det var ikke en fremmed terroristgruppe som sto bak det største angrepet på Norge i fredstid, men en ung mann fra Oslo. Siden 22.juli 2011 har Norge.prøvd å forstå hva som drev massedrapsmannen. Gjennom et unikt kildemateriale har Åsne Seierstad funnet en gutt og en mann som i mange år strevde med å finne sin plass innenfor samfunnets rammer, men.som endte med å bryte dem på det mest brutale vis. Dette er også en fortelling om dem som ble berørt. To søstre fra Nesodden som gledet seg til AUFs sommerleir på Utøya, årets høydepunkt. Og en guttegjeng fra Troms som dro sørover med samme mål. Bare noen av dem returnerte. Den prisbelønnede forfatteren Åsne Seierstad har tidligere rapportert fra krigssoner ute i verden. 22. juli 2011 skjedde dramatikken i hennes eget land. Dette er den første boken hun skriver om Norge.

En av oss – en fortelling om Norge

Norjan kansainvälisesti tunnetuimman journalistin perusteellinen katsaus Oslon ja Utøyan terrori-iskuihin. Perjantaina 22.7. 2011 kaksi autopommia Oslon keskustassa ja verilöyly nuortenleirillä Utøyan saarella romahduttivat kuvan turvallisesta Norjasta.

Yksi meistä. Kertomus Norjasta

Under ett par års tid har Åsne Seierstad följt en grupp människor i Serbien och skildrat deras liv, deras rädslor, drömmar och förhoppningar. Våren 2003 återvänder hon igen till landet som väcker avsky och fruktan i väst, men som ser sig själv som ett offer. Krigsförbrytarens hustru, kosovoserber i landsflykt och den mördade premiärministern Zoran Djinjic alla har de sin historia att berätta. Under upplösningskrigen i det forna Jugoslavien har medierna i väst framställt serberna som bödlar. Själva ser de sig som offer. I reportageboken "Med ryggen mot världen" (2004) ger Seierstad en rik och nyanserad bild av Serbien.

Åsne Seierstad

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