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On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister’s office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then drove to the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenagers. In her new book , journalist Ã…sne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day, Norway’s own September 11. She delves deep into Breivik’s childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist and then an Internet gamer and self-styled warrior who believed he could save Europe from the threats of Islam and multiculturalism.

How did Breivik, raised by a single mother in one of the world’s most famously tolerant and egalitarian societies, become convinced that feminism and immigration has destroyed European culture? How did a gifted child from an affluent Oslo neighborhood become Europe’s most reviled terrorist?

Join ¹ú²úÊÓƵ NYC for a conversation with Ã…sne Seierstad and The New York Times‘s Lydia Polgreen about the psychological roots of right-wing extremism and about Norway’s struggles to come to terms with homegrown terror.

Copies of Ã…sne Seierstad’s will be available for purchase. Follow the discussion online using #NANYC and following .

Participants:

Ã…sne Seierstad
Author, One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Lydia Polgreen
Deputy International Editor, The New York Times

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