Amélie Nothomb - Böcker

Man ska inte underskatta överlevnadsglöden Amélie Nothomb Kongo, 1964. En ung belgisk diplomat står inför en exekutionspluton, övertygad om att han ska dö. Förhandlingarna med rebellerna har misslyckats och nu ska han skjutas, tillsammans med de m...

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    För att vara törstig måste man vara levande. Jag har alltid vetat att jag skulle dömas till döden är första meningen i denna roman. Den som berättar är ingen mindre än Jesus, som har dömts till döden av Pontius Pilatus och sitter i e...

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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 spe...

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'Ingenious . . . With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.' O, The Oprah Magazine Amélie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at th...

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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 mankind. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her...

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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 Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel ab...

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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 ...

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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. Diana steals the hearts of all who meet her, inciting nothing but jea...

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In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Amélie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb...

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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 of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed a...

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The Gospel according to Amélie Jesus is perhaps the most universally known figure in the Western world, yet he remains one of the most obscure. In her reinterpretation of the story of the Passion and crucifixion, Nothomb gives voice to a transgres...

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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 which have led to him finding himself staring death in the face. Pat...

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