Name: Nothing
ISBN: 9781442441163

Janne Teller

Martin Aitken

When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life.

Nothing

tori 👻

4.5 stars

I thought a lot about what to write in regards to this particular book. Because I wanted to write something.

The first being that I would like to say that this is filled with triggers. Of all kind, but I would like to give a HUGE trigger warning for suicidal thoughts. And I mean it, do not read this book if you're affected by this kind of content. I mean it.

That being said, the writing of Teller is extremely strong and impactful. It makes you think and horrifies you. A particular chapter with the character Sophie actually made me close the book for a few minutes.

Personally, I came across this story in a conversation with a friend. Her sister is majoring in psychology and mentioned this book being discussed in class. Its background made me interested in it and it actually took me over a year to find a copy. I finished reading this last night. This is a rather small one and it almost took me 3 days to read it. That's how much it made me uncomfortable.

However, it is a brilliant story and a very simple one. It contains a lot of meaning, curiously so having the plotline around the fact that a kid believes nothing matters. This was a good read.

i wanted to know why this book is forbidden in some countries haha - it’s written to be easily read in one go, and although its ‘simple’, it made me think about so many things, about the meaning of everything and even as far as question it. in that way, it’s kind of heavy.. but it stayed on my mind for a long time. 

sofia villarrreal

kinda weird, but i read it on one night so i liked it 

Ildiko Foris

Noelle 

angela

Tammy kuffó

“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…

Danielle 

debre

Pierre Antón deja el colegio el día que descubre que la vida no tiene sentido. Se sube a un ciruelo y declama a gritos las razones por las que nada importa en la vida. Tanto desmoraliza a sus compañeros que deciden apilar objetos esenciales para ellos con el fin de demostrarle que hay cosas que dan sentido a quiénes somos. En su búsqueda arriesgarán parte de sí mismos y descubrirán que sólo al perder algo se aprecia su valor. Pero entonces puede ser demasiado tarde.

When thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon leaves school to sit in a plum tree and train for becoming part of nothing, his seventh grade classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life.

Nothing

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