{"product_id":"the-unworthy-by-roy-jacobsen-9781529436129","title":"The Unworthy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey're a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying documents and stealing like magpies. And they don't shy away from targeting the Enemy, either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut everything changes when Carl's father hands him a secret map and a German password, just hours before he's taken away by the Quisling police - only to return in a coffin. And when Olav's father also disappears, the gang come to see that they are caught up in something far more serious than their usual petty crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, \u003cem\u003eThe Unworthy\u003c\/em\u003e is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted \u003cem\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/em\u003e. It shines a light on a brutal aspect of the war rarely explored in fiction, and every sentence is imbued with decades of accumulated wisdom from a writer who had his own brushes with the law in his youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47734677373164,"sku":"9781529436129","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529436129-the-unworthy.jpg?v=1781223562","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-unworthy-by-roy-jacobsen-9781529436129","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}