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Nothing

written by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken

207 pages · 2011

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"From the moment you are born you start to die."So says Pierre Anthon when he decides there is no meaning to life, leaves the 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.To prove to him that there is a meaning to life, they set out to build a heap of meaning in an abandoned sawmill. But it soon becomes obvious that each person cannot give up what is most meaningful and events begin to spiral out of control...

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