Name: Nothing
SKU: 5460023
Price: 17.40 EUR
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Author: Janne Teller

Type

Physical Book

Author

Janne Teller

Translated by

Martin Aitken

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Topic

social issues - friendship; social issues - peer pressure; social issues - values

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21x15x1.5 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN

144244116x

ISBN13

9781442441163

Synopsis "Nothing "

This modern-day Lord of the Flies is a haunting existential novel, both award-winning and and provocative. Now in paperback as part of the Atheneum Collection! "Nothing matters." "From the moment you are born, you start to die." "The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. You'll live to be a maximum of one hundred. Life isn't worth the bother!" So says Pierre Anthon when he decides there is no meaning to life, leaves his seventh-grade classroom, climbs a plum tree, and stays there. His friends and classmates cannot get him to come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to him that there is a meaning to life, they set out to give up things of importance, challenging one another to make increasingly serious sacrifices. The pile is started with a lifetime's collection of Dungeons & Dragons books, a fishing rod, a pair of green sandals, a pet hamster--but then, as each demand becomes more extreme, events take a morbid twist. And what if, after all these sacrifices, the pile is still not meaningful enough to bring Pierre Anthon down?

Janne Teller

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Janne Teller (Copenhagen, April 8, 1964) is a Danish writer of Austro-German descent, known for addressing existential and ethical themes in her works that often spark controversial debates. Before dedicating herself fully to literature in 1995, she worked in humanitarian conflict resolution for the United Nations and the European Union in various African countries, such as Tanzania, Mozambique, and Bangladesh.

Among her most notable works are "Odin's Island" (1999), a novel that explores religious and political fanaticism; "Nothing" (2000), a philosophical novel that has been translated into more than 25 languages and has sparked broad debates; and "War" (2004), a novel that invites reflection on the refugee experience. Her literature has been awarded various prizes, including the Michael L. Printz Honor Book in 2011 for "Nothing".

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