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Loving Sabotage

By Amelie Nothomb

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Loving Sabotage

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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 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
144
Release Date:
2005-11-03
Publication Date:
2005-11-03
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571226639
ISBN13:
9780571226634
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
108 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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