Provocative, outrageous, and caustically funny, Loving Sabotage recounts a precocious girl’s understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life. The narrator is instantly infatuated and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her attention is shattering Elena’s indifference. During one of her tours of duty in a war that has broken out in the ghetto between the children of various nations, she encounters a young Italian girl, Elena: beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. ![]() The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government enclave battling tirelessly against boredom, concocting a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak. It was China I was seven years old.” So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amélie Nothomb’s critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. ![]() En 1999, elle obtient avec Stupeur et tremblements le Grand Prix de l’Académie française. Dès son premier roman Hygiène de l’assassin paru en 1992, elle s’est imposée comme un écrivain singulier. “I lived everything daring those three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. Parte 2 Ácido Sulfúrico, Amélie Nothomb por Trixie Amundaraín. « Tout ce que l’on aime devient une fiction.
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