![]() ![]() In the 19th-century, Marstallers expertly manned the sailing ships of the world, moving commerce across the seas on the winds, only distracted by periodic warring with the Germans. Always back to Marstal, where the women wait, worry, and grieve. Spanning the years & generations from 1848 to 1945, We follows the sailors of Marstal – the center of Danish seafaring pride – as they travel the oceans of the world – from Samoa to Newfoundland, Australia to London, Casablanca to Dakar, Murmansk to Greenland, and back home to Marstal. (Illustrated by Joe McLaren, jacket design by Susanne Dean, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.) Since its original Danish publication in 2006, it has won the Danske Banks Litteraturpris – the highest literary award in Denmark – and was voted the best Danish novel of the last 25 years by the readers of the country’s largest newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.Īnd check out that cover art – if this isn’t the kind of aesthetics that will keep paperbound books in our lives, I don’t know what is. We, the Drowned is a gorgeous 675-page novel about several generations of seafaring Danes from the tiny town of Marstal on the archipelago island of Ærø. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have been, admittedly, very lax in my postings on the Catapult as of late and the best excuse I can offer is that I was so wrapped up in the book I was reading that I had no leftover time to write about anything else. ![]()
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