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Loving Sabotage (Paperback, Main): Amelie Nothomb

Loving Sabotage (Paperback, Main)

Amelie Nothomb

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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 about a young girl already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world on her 'horse' (bicycle) with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. 'From puberty onwards,' she announces at one point, 'life is just an epilogue.' There, on the asphalt-playground-battlefield, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her very own coldly indifferent 'Helen of Troy.' But she also learns life's hardest rule: that if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. Poignant, provocative - and often hilarious - Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.; A brilliant backlist novel from Amelie Nothomb, which will help maintain the momentum behind her work in the UK following the acclaim and success of The Book of Proper Names Her new novel, Antichrista, is p

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Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2005
Authors: Amelie Nothomb
Dimensions: 197 x 126 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 144
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22663-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 0-571-22663-9
Barcode: 9780571226634

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