{"product_id":"9781529436129","title":"The Unworthy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Roy Jacobsen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 21 May 2026 by Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 368 pages, N\/A\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 27 | 262g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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":"East Gate Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56669604970882,"sku":"9781529436129","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/4442\/2862\/files\/9781529436129.jpg?v=1779700501","url":"https:\/\/shop.eastgatebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781529436129","provider":"The East Gate Bookshop Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}