A review by pmnt
We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen

5.0

An epic tale about a small Danish seafaring town called Marstal and its wanderlustful sailor men, its strong widowed women, and the legends created over the hundred-year period between 1848 and 1945. This novel had me entranced from the beginning. There's always something about translated books that I find so interesting (see: Murakami). Its stories leap from one character to the next, overlapping like a strange and wonderful staircase. There is a portion in the book toward the 3/4 mark where it feels a little bit testing, but for the most part the novel spins its epic yarn fantastically. 4.5/5.