{"product_id":"the-unworthy-roy-jacobsen-9781529436112","title":"The Unworthy","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roy Jacobsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1529436117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529436112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Roy Jacobsen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47135367659775,"sku":"9781529436112","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bdb2f40f-6228-461b-bb62-8265f06fae1f.jpg?v=1755009936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unworthy-roy-jacobsen-9781529436112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}