by Carsten Jensen · SALAMANDRA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498383126
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«Nosotros, los ahogados» is the contemporary fiction novel by Carsten Jensen, published by Salamandra in hardcover (704 pages, in Spanish).
It follows several generations of sailors from Marstal, in southern Denmark, during a time of political transformation in Europe. Men of the sea travel routes from Newfoundland to Samoa, Tasmania and the northern coast of Russia, with their ambitions, loves and struggles. With humor and fatalism, it is an epic of those who left and those who stayed.
Published in 2010, translated from Danish, part of the Salamandra Narrativa collection. Winner of the Danske Banks Litteraturpris.
For the general public and readers of contemporary fiction, particularly those seeking novels with a maritime setting.
Carsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His books, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel Vi, de druknede, a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal.
