Zero Av Gine Cornelia Pedersen

<p><i>I tell her I’ve stopped taking my pills</i><br><i>I write that I’m still not well, that it’s making day-to-day life difficult</i><br><i>That 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</i><br><i>That I really want to be an actor, but that it’s a dream that seems all too distant for the time being</i><br><i>I tell her I use and abuse alcohol and drugs, and that I’ve got a death wish that sometimes becomes difficult to ignore</i><br><i>That I don’t know who I am</i><br><i>That I change my mind as frequently as I change my socks</i><br><i>That I’m horrible to the people around me</i><br><i>That my sex life is depraved</i><br><br><b>Gine Cornelia Pedersen</b>’s début novel won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas First Book Award in its native Norway upon publication and went on to<br>garner numerous glowing reviews, with major broadsheet Aftenposten declaring ‘Sometimes, as a reviewer, one forgets a work’s failings and<br> 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…’ <br> Elsewhere described by the Norwegian press as ‘like listening to a punk-rock single’, <i>Zero</i> finds its young, female protagonist constantly torn<br>between hope and despair, rage and confusion, as she tries to find her place in and, eventually, far outwith, society.</p>