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Amelie Nothomb
In ‘The Character of Rain’, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first…
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This book combines six autobiographical novels by the Belgian writer, covering episodes from her childhood, adolescence, living in the East, and several trips to Japan where she faces their delirious…
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Count Neville goes to a psychic’s house to pick up his youngest daughter. The psychic found the girl in the forest escaping from the family castle. The psychic takes his…
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When Blanche’s mother, who finds her own daughter rather dull, is dazzled by Christa, she invites her to stay at the house. Suddenly Christa can do no wrong and, as…
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Claude and Dominique have a daughter named Epicene. Claude and Dominique have settled in Paris, and driven by a social ambition, they befriend a couple from the high financial bourgeoisie…
Nothomb receives a letter from one of her readers, Melvin Mapple, who writes to her from Iraq. Mapple suffers from a disease that is common among soldiers, throwing the reader…
Nothomb plunges us into the universe of magic through two figures: Norman Terence, a famous magician, and Joe Whip, a boy who turns up at his door looking for a…
Saturnine is a young woman who decides to rent a room in a mansion in Paris. She is a reader of the papers of the Spanish Inquisition and also of…
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The on-again/off-again friendship between Ptronille and the main character in the book, who happens to be a writer by the name of Amlie Nothomb, gives the story its verve and…
Nothomb receives a letter from one of her readers, an American soldier who is fighting in Iraq. Horrified by the endless violence around him, he takes comfort in overeating until…
Amlie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of a student–the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri–the lovers find themselves swept along by an…
Published in English for the first time, Nothomb’s award-winning novel tells the story of a reclusive and dying Nobel laureate author who grants access to five journalists. But what they…
Jrme Angust, a bussiness man, is waiting at the airport gate for his delayed flight. He starts reading a book to kill time until an unknown man, Textor Texel, tries…
Marie is the prettiest girl in her hometown, dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and she loves it. She falls pregnant…
Chronicles one girl’s precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life
This novel is an inspiring autobiography that has been enormously successful in France. The book tells the story of a young Belgian girl who goes to Tokyo to work for…
‘Fear and Trembling’ tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything…
Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l'ecrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des…
A satirical take on reality TV, from the enfant terrible of French literature.
A hapless young Western woman spends a year toiling in a Japanese company, making one terrible cultural blunder after another as she struggles to survive in an unfamiliar environment. By…
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The most destructive mechanisms of the soul, laid bare.
Venez decouvrir Stupeur et tremblements d'Amelie Nothomb grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux enseignants…
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Since the publication of her first novel in 1992, Amelie Nothomb continues to engage and to provoke her readers through her exploration of the fluid boundaries between beauty and monstrosity…
With wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Amelie Nothomb, the author of over twenty-three best-selling novels tells an unusual story about twin abiding passions: one for champagne, and the…
Amelie Nothomb,Anne Ebert,Anne Ebert
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb’s critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for…
The Gospel according to Amelie.
A gentle homage to the man who gave her life WINNER: Strega European Prize Amelie Nothomb at her best: cruel, tender and funny. -Telerama
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‘I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China, I was seven years old.’ So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie…
WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023
A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb's own father, who died…
