Tuesday, October 13, 2015

the last book I ever read (One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, excerpt one)

from One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Ǻsne Seierstad:

The two boys learnt to trust themselves early on. From Year 1 at school they went off on their own across the garden, up the lane to the main road, then along to the crossroads where the school bus stopped. In winter, when the polar night descended on northern Norway, it was mostly pitch dark, as neither the lane nor the main road had street lights. One morning Tone was standing at the window with her coffee when she saw a shadow in the early-morning gloom. A huge bull elk was bearing down at top speed on Simon, who was ploughing along, head down, through the squally wind and snow. The elk and the seven-year-old were on course to blunder straight into each other. Tone cried out as she lost them both from sight in the snowy storm. She rushed out in her slippers and yelled.



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