Hygiene and the Assassin

Name: Hygiene and the Assassin
ISBN: 9788483004579

Amélie Nothomb

180 pages · about 3 hours
First published 1992
17 editions

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1 About this book

Hygiene and the Assassin (French: Hygiène de l'assassin, lit. "The Assassin's Hygiene") is the first novel by the Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb. It was published in 1992 by Albin Michel. The novel is written almost entirely in dialogue.

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Women journalists
Novelists
Psychological fiction

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.

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