One of Us

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik unleashed an unthinkable act of terror in Norway: a bombing in Oslo followed by the massacre of sixty-nine youth on Utøya island. In *One of Us*, acclaimed journalist Åsne Seierstad (*The Bookseller of Kabul*) masterfully reconstructs this tragic day and its reverberations. She delves into Breivik's chilling transformation from a privileged child to Europe's most reviled right-wing extremist. With equal intimacy, Seierstad traces the lives, hopes, and political awakenings of his young victims. The narrative culminates in the gripping public trial, where Norway grapples with unimaginable grief, the nature of homegrown evil, and the haunting question of how such a tragedy occurred in a famously peaceful society. A *New York Times* Bestseller and a *New York Times Book Review* Ten Best Books of 2015, *One of Us* is a powerful true-crime procedural, a profound psychological study of extremism, and the basis for the Netflix film *22 July*.

Archival Categorization Notes

This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of True Crime. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Homicide, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.