We, The Drowned

We, The Drowned is first and foremost a novel about the sea, a novel which has practically been written in cooperation with the great authors of the nineteenth century - Conrad, Melville, Stevenson... We, The Drowned is the best novel I have read in ages.

Aftenposten, Norway

A fiercely romantic novel that spans over 100 years of Danish history of war and love... Large in size, but even larger in scope because of its storytelling and writing.

Berlingske Tidende, Denmark

A magnificent addition to the canon of seafaring writing, a brilliant new reworking of the ancient theme...the pages glow with wonderfully imagined pictures... The language is all you could hope for in a sea novel: sinewy and simple, often surprisingly beautiful

Vanora Bennett, The Times

A novel of immense authority and ambition and beauty, by a master storyteller at the height of his powers. This is a book to sail into, to explore, to get lost in, but it is also a book that brings the reader, dazzled by wonders, home to the heart from which great stories come. Meet Carsten Jensen halfway and you're spellbound

Joseph O'Connor

A rollicking debut by Jensen, the latest in a lineage of authors of maritime sagas stretching from Homer to Patrick O'Brien

Financial Times

An epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion... A life-changing experience for all

Western Daily Press

An epic tale

Independent

Beautifully translated and packed with enough drama, suspense and philosophical speculation for myriad lesser novels, We, The Drowned is bold, brilliant, unmissable stuff.

Independent on Sunday

Carsten Jensen is unquestionably one of the most exciting authors writing in Scandinavia today. I always look forward hugely to his books. He is, in my opinion, an utterly unique story-teller

Henning Mankell

Carsten Jensen took the seafaring history of small Danish port and made of it a mighty ocean-going vessel of stories about a whole world in motion.

Boyd Tonkin, Independent, Christmas round up

Epic tale

Boyd Tonkin, Independent Summer Reads

I was swept away (pun noted but not intended) by this wonderful book. I didn't want it to end and thankfully, given its length, it didn't do so for some considerable time. It was voted the greatest Danish book of the last 25 years. I have no idea what sort of competition it was up against but its victory doesn't surprise me: it is one of the best books I have read in the past 25 years as well.

Me and My Big Mouth

Impressive... one of the more engrossing literary voyages of recent years... rich, powerful and rewarding

Financial Times

In the original Danish, Vi de druknede has already won the Danske Banks Litteraturpris, Demark's equivalent of the Man Booker. Now it has been unleashed on the English-speaking world, many more accolades will surely follow

Roger Cox, The Scotsman

Manoeuvres easily between intimacy, subtlety and contagious pleasure in the greater narrative, the cock-and-bull story and the grotesque details... a counterpart to Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Jyllands-Posten, Denmark