{"product_id":"9781529436129","title":"The Unworthy","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Jacobsen, Roy \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 21\/05\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages, N\/A,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529436129,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class' Times Literary SupplementThey'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, The Unworthy is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57104617898357,"sku":"9781529436129","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529436129.jpg?v=1777198172","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781529436129","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}