{"product_id":"hello-world-by-anna-poletti-9781923099807","title":"hello, world?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbandoned by their Dutch partner after giving up their home and their job to follow him to the Netherlands, Seasonal finds themself single in a strange place for the first time in a decade. Still adjusting to life outside Australia, they turn to the internet to find a new anchor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDipping into the rabbit hole of digital eroticism, Seasonal meets Lszl, a male sub who volleys back their cerebral sexts and is seeking a dominant guide. His dating-app profile thinly veils his desire to be annihilated. It's a desire that Seasonal senses they can fulfil. But to do it, Seasonal must forget the hard-earned ways of keeping themself safe they developed in the milieu of violence and sexual threat that marked their upbringing in working-class, small-town Australia. At home, men were usually a threat. What if the roles were reversed?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeasonal and Lszl embark on an experiment in remaking intimacy outside the Republic of Gender. But as it continues, the two realise they are staging separate confrontations with domination: Seasonal finds they must confront what it has meant to be raised as a woman in Australia, while Lszl stages his own confrontation with his decision to leave Viktor Orbn's Hungary. As the two improvise a theatre of domination in search of freedom, the energies of their sexuality stalk this collaboration, threatening to give them exactly what they bargained or begged for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA reverse novel of education, where two people try to unlearn everything they think they know about intimacy, Anna Poletti's \u003cem\u003ehello, world?\u003c\/em\u003e dares to fully face the violence, beauty, and uncharted territories of human sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486107418860,"sku":"9781923099807","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e49fa6587b5bf95f9bc4772d38b01d48_3bf9baa2-e465-4e4c-a2cc-9583d8e1e4bd.jpg?v=1775781319","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/hello-world-by-anna-poletti-9781923099807","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}