Nothing by Janne Teller
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?
Teller: - Nacida en 1964, novelista danesa de ascendencia austro-germana, ha pasado diferentes etapas de su vida alrededor de todo el mundo. Actualmente vive a caballo entre Copenhague y Nueva York. Ha vivido y trabajado en resoluciü¾Œ¶˜¼n de conflictos humanitarios en lugares tan diversos como Tanzania, Mozambique y Bangladesh. En 1995 dejü¾Œ¶˜¼ su carrera profesional en Naciones Unidas para dedicarse plenamente a la literatura. La obra de Janne Teller, que tambiü¾Ž–”¼n incluye ensayos y relatos, ha recibido diversas becas y premios. Sus libros filosü¾Œ¶˜¼ficos han causado controversia y provocado encendidos debates en Dinamarca, debates que se van extendiendo al resto del mundo. Es autora tambiü¾Ž–”¼n de las novelas La isla de Odü¾™†”¼n(1999), The Trampling Cat (2004) y Come (2008). Su literatura ha sido traducida a veinticinco lenguas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416985792 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416985794 |
| Title | Nothing |
| Author | Janne Teller |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 2010-02-09 |
| Number of pages | 227 |
| Prizes | Commended for Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2011, Commended for Mildred L. Batchelder Award (Children's) 2011, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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