According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amelie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amelie; working there turns into comic nightmare.
Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut...
According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement ...
Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalizing menage a trois between a professor, his assistant, and a student, only the books bear witness to their plight.
Amelie Nothomb is the award-winning author of 13 novels, including Hygiene de l'assassin; Stupeur et tremblements, winner of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francais; and Robert des noms propres, which has sold over 250,000 copies in France. Human Rites is her first play.
Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalizing menage a trois between a professor, his assistant, and a student, only ...
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 two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state."
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...
Tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. This book is a satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home dev
Tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. This book is a...
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 in Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world of the concrete ghetto of San Li Tun on her horse -- her bicycle -- with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. From puberty onwards, she announces at one point, life is just an epilogue. On the battlefield of an asphalt playground, in between wars with the children of other...
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. ...
Amélie Nothomb erzählt in 'Antéchrista' (2003, deutsch 'Böses Mädchen') von der Freundschaft zweier junger Mädchen. Blanche, Einzelgängerin, freundet sich mit der umschwärmten Christa an, die auch Blanches Eltern im Sturm erobert, bald bei Blanche einzieht und diese zunehmend verdrängt: sie ist die 'Antéchrista', die gekommen ist, um Blanche auf teuflische Weise ins Unglück zu stürzen. "Ein dialogreicher und scharfzüngiger Roman mit Drive" (Das Netzmagazin).§§Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder...
Amélie Nothomb erzählt in 'Antéchrista' (2003, deutsch 'Böses Mädchen') von der Freundschaft zweier junger Mädchen. Blanche, Einzelgängerin, fr...
Blanche und Christa sind Freundinnen. Bis Blanche das wahre Gesicht ihrer Freundin erkennt: Sie ist die Antichrista. Gekommen, nicht um sie zu erretten, sondern um sie zu zerstören.
Blanche und Christa sind Freundinnen. Bis Blanche das wahre Gesicht ihrer Freundin erkennt: Sie ist die Antichrista. Gekommen, nicht um sie zu errette...
