Fear and Trembling

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Amélie Nothomb

144 pages, parution le 18/08/2004

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Résumé

'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, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement.'Ingenious . . . With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.' O, The Oprah Magazine Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing, Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made and spoiled. 'A vituperatively funny attack on an alien culture.' Daily Telegraph 'Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters - she has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature.' Elle 'A scathingly funny novella.' NewsdayBelgian by nationality, Amelie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan, and currently lives in Paris. Described by Time Magazine as 'prolific and ingenious', she is the best-selling author of numerous novels, translated into over thirty languages, including Fear and Trembling which won the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise and the Prix Internet du Livre, and The Book of Proper Names which has sold over 250,000 copies in France.

L'auteur - Amélie Nothomb

Depuis 1992 et Hygiène de l'assassin, tous les livres d'Amélie Nothomb ont été publiés aux éditions Albin Michel. Elle a reçu, entre autres, le prix Chardonne, le Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française, le prix de Flore, et le Grand prix Jean Giono pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.
Ses oeuvres sont traduites dans 40 langues, des U.S.A. au Japon.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Faber & faber---eng
Auteur(s)	Amélie Nothomb
Parution	18/08/2004
Nb. de pages	144
Format	12 x 19
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780571220489