Loving sabotage

Name: Loving sabotage
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780969884545

129 pages2000Hurricane PressISBN 9780969884545

Fiction, general Diplomatic and consular service Fiction Children Conduct of life Cruelty Play Diplomats Social perception in children

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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 novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government housing ghetto of San Li Tun on her "horse" (bicycle). In a tireless battle against boredom, she concocts a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. During one of her tours of duty as a pathfinder in a war that has broken out in the ghetto between the children of various nations - a hilarious microcosm of "adult" world politics - she encounters a young Italian girl, Elena: beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. Our heroine is instantly infatuated, and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her energies is shattering Elena's indifference."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication Details

Publisher: Hurricane Press
Published: 2000
Pages: 129
ISBN: 9780969884545

About Unknown Author

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 ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères, le roi Philippe lui a proposé la concession du titre personnel de baronne. ---------- Fabienne Nothomb, known as Amélie Nothomb, is a Belgian novelist writing in French, born on July 9, 1966, in Etterbeek. A prolific author, she has published a book every year since 1992, the year of publication of her first novel, *Hygiène de l'assassin* (The Hygiene of the Assassin). Her novels consistently rank among the bestsellers, and some have been translated into several languages. She has received numerous literary awards, including the Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (1993), the Grand Prix du Roman of the Académie Française (1999), and the Prix Renaudot (2021). This success has earned her a royal decree granting her the honorary title of Commander of the Order of the Crown, and, on the recommendation of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, King Philippe has proposed that she be granted the personal title of Baroness.