{"product_id":"the-unworthy-hardcover-4","title":"The Unworthy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoy Jacobsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class\" Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Unworthy\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoy Jacobsen has twice been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literary Award: for \u003ci\u003eSeierherren\u003c\/i\u003ee in 1991, and \u003ci\u003eFrost\u003c\/i\u003e in 2003, and in 2009 he was shortlisted for the Dublin Impac Award for his novel T\u003ci\u003ehe Burnt-Out Town of Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, the first in a bestselling historial series, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267295789305,"sku":"9781529436112","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/uMPFcyH81F9781529436112.webp?v=1768862849","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-unworthy-hardcover-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}