We, The Drowned - Carsten Jensen torrent

Category: Adventure, Historical Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: 1848 Denmark Sailors

Written by Carsten Jensen
Read by Simon Vance
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: January 2016
Duration: 25 hours 27 minutes
Sample narration here: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/we-the-drowned/251138

Summary:
In 1848, a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return—and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas.

This is also 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 and about the women and children they left behind. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation with their cannibals, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, forbidden passions, cowards, heroes, tragedies, and miraculous survivals.

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.

Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned, spanning four generations, two world wars, and a hundred years, is an epic tale of adventure, ruthlessness, and passion destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature.

“We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war’s confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike…Powerful reading for a long winter’s night…[A] gorgeous, unsparing novel.”—Washington Post…Read Less

Genres:
Fiction & Literature> Action & Adventure