- Assassins, Fiction, Murder for hire, Serial murderers
After an unhappy love affair leaves him emotionally numb, a man becomes a hired killer, only to have his new life start unraveling when he reads the diary of a girl he was hired to kill, instead of turning it over to his employers. Could learning this dead girl's secrets lead to his redemption?
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Spare, contemporary, grave and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Amélie Nothomb
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- Nhã Nam, Editorial Empúries, NXB Văn học
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- cat, Spanish, vie, French
- ISBN
- 9788497872782
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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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