Pet (Unabridged)
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- 13,99 €
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"[A] beautiful, genre-expanding debut. . . . Pet is a nesting doll of creative possibilities." -The New York Times
The highly-anticipated, genre-defying new novel by award-winning author Akwaeke Emezi that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?
There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors 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, and the answer to the question--How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
Acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi makes their riveting and timely young adult debut with a book that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.
"Like [Madeleine] L'Engle, Akwaeke Emezi asks questions of good and evil and agency, all wrapped up in the terrifying and glorious spectacle of fantastical theology." -NPR
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater, established them as a writer to watch. With Pet, they’ve created another stunning landscape that upends our conceptions of truth and fiction. Young Jam lives in a world without monsters; she’s never known them or seen them, but has heard tales of the world before. But Jam’s reality changes in a flash when her artist mother paints an image that comes to life, ready to hunt a monster. Flipping ideas of utopia on their heads, Emezi dares to imagine what a truly just society might look like. Tinged with magic realism, Pet is a rich and imaginative novel that we hoped would never end.
