{"product_id":"pet-akwaeke-emezi","title":"Pet (Akwaeke Emezi)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out of the canvas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky, at least tell me what I should call you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWell, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in denial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful, genre-expanding' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Compelling... a wonderful mix of fantasy, dystopian drama, political commentary and a coming of age tale that is sure to grip any reader' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The word hype was invented to describe books like this'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e Refinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAkwaeke Emezi (they\/them) is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eDear Senthuran\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Vivek Oji, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; \u003ci\u003ePet\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and \u003ci\u003eFreshwater\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book, longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the PEN\/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation, they are based in liminal spaces.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 208 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807720055133,"sku":"K077112834","price":10.2,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7711283400001A.jpg?v=1788485424","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/pet-akwaeke-emezi","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}