- Fiction, Foreign Visitors, Foreign workers, Young women
"According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor were to adopt a tone of fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amelie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine in this new novel by Amelie Nothomb, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and comic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Amélie Nothomb
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Kineret, Diogenes Verlag, Zürich
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- cat, vie, French, heb
- ISBN
- 9788433969194
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“MISTER HANEDA WAS senior to Mister Omochi, who was senior to Mister Saito, who was senior to Miss Mori, who was senior to me.”
Fabienne Nothomb, dite Amélie Nothomb, est une romancière belge de langue française née le 9 juillet 1966 à Etterbeek. Autrice prolifique, elle publie un ouvrage par an depuis 1992, année de publication de son premier roman, *Hygiène de l'assassin.* Ses romans font partie, chaque année, des meilleures ventes littéraires et certains sont traduits en plusieurs langues. Elle a obtenu de très nombreux prix littéraires, dont le prix littéraire de la vocation (1993), le grand prix du roman de l'Académie française (1999) et le prix Renaudot (2021) . Ce succès lui vaut un arrêté royal qui lui accorde le titre honorifique de commandeur de l'ordre de la Couronne et, sur la proposition du vice-Premier
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