{"product_id":"9780997818420-the-consequences","title":"The Consequences","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis award-winning, raucous debut novel follows young Minnie Panis, performance artist and existentialist, as she tries to refuse success and fame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate, often humorous exploration of the intertwining cycles of death, rebirth and coincidence through the eyes of an existential artist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn amazing game of mirrors. […] Original and promising.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2014 Anton Wachter Prize for Best First Novel; Golden Book Owl Reader's Choice Award; Opzij Feminist Literature Prize; 2014 Lucy B. \u0026amp; C.W. van der Hoogt Prize; Nominated for the John Leonard Prize, National Book Critics Circle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeet Minnie Panis\u003c\/b\u003e, a young and talented conceptual artist navigating love affairs, her unexpected success in the art world, and her relationship with an emotionally distant mother. After surviving a near-death experience falling through the ice during her ultimate artwork, Minnie begins to uncover the truth behind her premature birth with the help of the doctor who saves her life—as it turns out—twice. Entering into his clinic, whose motto is \u003ci\u003eAll the fish needs is to get lost in the water\u003c\/i\u003e, Minnie arrives at the border of life’s ebb, where meaningful art and revelations occur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNiña Weijers’ remarkable, inventive novel depicts a contemporary conceptual artist at the height of her fame, whose blasé art project has unintended \u003ci\u003econsequences\u003c\/i\u003e. Weijers invokes Kurt Vonnegut in the course of the narrative, and this novel shares Vonnegut’s sense of how things can be simultaneously real and absurd. Movies and books notoriously fail to capture the social and spiritual atmosphere of the contemporary art world, but Weijers nails it. Her book is beautifully written, surprising and often profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chris Kraus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419645133174,"sku":"9780997818420","price":23.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33702441.jpg?v=1748608531","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780997818420-the-consequences","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}