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Fear and Trembling
'Ingenious . . . With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.' O, The Oprah MagazineAmélie, a well-intentioned and …
Strike Your Heart
This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is "e;a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship"e; (The Washington Post).One …
Fear and Trembling
Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Am lie Nothomb's Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut …
First Blood
The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his childhood with a distant mother, and the moments …
Sulphuric Acid
Sulphuric Acid tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and …
Strike Your Heart
Marie is the prettiest girl in her hometown and is dating the most popular boy. The envy of all her schoolmates, when she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change. …
Human Rites
"Another winter of war and survival demands sacrifices...Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalising menage-a-trois between a Professor, his assistant, and …
The Character of Rain
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of …
Loving Sabotage
'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 …
Pétronille
Bestselling French author Amelie Nothomb writes about twin passions: for champagne and for her riotous friendship with Petronille Fanto, a woman who refuses to drink alone. The …