{"product_id":"the-unworthy-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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quercus Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529436112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Roy Jacobsen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51634882511029,"sku":"9781529436112","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c6df437b-1e76-4937-ba32-43ae7fe3de6b.jpg?v=1756789341","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-unworthy-9781529436112","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}