Amelie Nothomb

• Jan-1998
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When E+a7mile Hazel moves with his wife, Juliette, to the French countryside, he finds himself beholden to a bizarre neighbor and trapped by his own weaknesses, in the American debut of one of France's rising literary stars....

• Oct-2000
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“I lived everything daring those three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China; I was seven years old.” So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amélie Nothomb’s critically acclaimed nov...

• Mar-2001
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Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Amélie Nothomb's Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately...

• Apr-2002
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The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amélie Nothomb's new novel The C...

• Aug-2004
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The Book of Proper Names is set in contemporary Paris, its main character an orphan named Plectrude. Before the child's birth her nineteen-year-old mother shoots and kills her nineteen-year-old (and somewhat feckless) father because she hates the nam...

• Jul-2007
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• Apr-2008
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"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 shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and c...

• Dec-2008
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Amélie Nothomb brings humor, intelligence, and a refreshing honesty to this highly autobiographical work. Her storytelling appeals to those who feel that their own immediate and personal sense of love is seldom adequately represented in popular fict...

• Nov-2010
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Amélie Nothomb is one of Europe's most successful and controversial authors. She wrote Hygiene and the Assasin, her first published novel, when se was only twenty-five, and it became an instant bestseller across Europe. 

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• Nov-2010
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• Feb-2013
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A fictional correspondence with a desperate American soldier leads to a strange new reality in this surreal novel of trauma, healing, and war.One morning, the heroine of this book -- a famous Belgian author named Amélie Nothomb -- receives an unusua...

• Oct-2015
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Employing wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Amlie Nothomb, the author of over twenty-three bestselling novels (over exactly twenty-three years!) writes about twin abiding passions: one for champagne, and the other for a riotous friendship bet...

• Sep-2018
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This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is “a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship” (The Washington Post).One of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018Marie is the pre...

• Apr-2021
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The prize-winning author “entices lucky readers with a dissenting, potentially heretical, refreshingly fascinating interpretation” of Jesus’s life (Shelf Awareness).The Francophone Belgian author Amélie Nothomb has won high praise for her prov...

• Aug-2021
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• May-2023
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WINNER OF THE 2021 RENAUDOT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2022 STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023 A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father, who died of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed ...