{"product_id":"zero-2","title":"Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI tell her I’ve stopped taking my pills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI write that I’m still not well, that it’s making day-to-day life difficult\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat I often do things I regret, and that there’s some sort of membrane between what I want to do and whatever I end up doing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat I really want to be an actor, but that it’s a dream that seems all too distant for the time being\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI tell her I use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and that I’ve got a death wish that sometimes becomes difficult to ignore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat I don’t know who I am\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat I change my mind as frequently as I change my socks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat I’m horrible to the people around me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat my sex life is depraved\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGine Cornelia Pedersen\u003c\/b\u003e’s début novel won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award in its native Norway upon publication and went on to\u003cbr\u003egarner numerous glowing reviews, with major broadsheet Aftenposten declaring ‘Sometimes, as a reviewer, one forgets a work’s failings and\u003cbr\u003e mistakes and becomes completely absorbed by an insistent narrative voice. That’s the case with Gine Cornelia Pedersen’s début, a firework out of control: sparks fly all over the place and the rocket could strike anywhere – and does…’ \u003cbr\u003e Elsewhere described by the Norwegian press as ‘like listening to a punk-rock single’, \u003ci\u003eZero\u003c\/i\u003e finds its young, female protagonist constantly torn\u003cbr\u003ebetween hope and despair, rage and confusion, as she tries to find her place in and, eventually, far outwith, society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318338724222,"sku":"NW9780995485235","price":10.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780995485235.jpg?v=1778724222","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/zero-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}