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Fear and Trembling

Amélie Nothomb

  • 144 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 31 editions
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1 About this book

"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. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amelie; working there turns into a comic nightmare.".

  • Japan
  • Romance literature
  • Young women
  • Social life and customs
  • Psychological fiction
  • Urban & street lit
  • Novel
  • Ausgabe

2 About Amélie Nothomb

Born 1967

Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (Kobe, born 13 August 1967), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb, is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Since the publication of her first novel Hygiene and the Assassin in 1992 at the age of twenty-six, Nothomb has published a book a year, and is regularly among the best selling French Language authors according to the Complete Review.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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