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In 2017 and 2019, together with a small but very diverse community, we read the novel We, the Drowned aloud to each other. Then we travelled together to Marstal, the Danish town where the story was set, and met the writer Carsten Jensen.

For a whole day, he took his readers in tow with punishing stories, gave them a tour of the city, took them to the maritime museum, went out sailing with them, invited them to restaurants. As icing on the cake, in the evening he took them to the performance We, the Drowned.

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'They are a writer's dream,' he says . 'Because by reading aloud together, they gave the book a polyphony that I myself also intended with my omniscient we-narrator.'

Jelle Van Riet, De Standaard der Letteren