Janne Teller: Nothing
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- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781442441163
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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? '