The unworthy
Jacobsen, Roy, 1954-2025
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They'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. But 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.
Main title:
The unworthy / Roy Jacobsen ; translated by Don Bartlett, Don Shaw.
Author:
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2025.
Collation:
384 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Norwegian.
ISBN:
9781529436112 (hbk)
Dewey class:
839.8238F
LC class:
PT8951.2.A385
Language:
EnglishNorwegian
Subject:
BRN:
4217300