Loving Sabotage - Softcover

Nothomb, Amélie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571226639 ISBN 13: 9780571226634

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2005

Synopsis

'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.

About this title

About the Author:

Since her startling entry on the French literary scene eight years ago with Hygiene de l'assassin (which sold over 100,000 copies in France alone), young Belgian novelist Amelie Nothomb has become a literary phenomenon worldwide, combining critical acclaim with enormous popular success. Her eight novels to date are now translated into fourteen languages, and have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Prix du Roman de L'Academie Francaise; the Prix Rene-Fallet; Prix Alain Fournier (twice); Prix Paris Premire 1995; and the Concours du Premier Roman de Sablet 1993.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0571226639
• ISBN 13: 9780571226634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144