Fear and Trembling: Tokyo Bride
Fear and Trembling: Tokyo Bride
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Amélie Nothomb is renowned for her brilliant short novels, which she has been publishing annually for over thirty years. Translated into forty countries, they have earned her numerous prestigious awards, including one of Europe's leading literary prizes, the Strega Prize.
Fear and Trembling and Tokyo Bride are her most celebrated bestsellers. Both books are based on true events in the author's life. The daughter of a prominent Belgian diplomat, Amélie Nothomb spent her early childhood in Japan and fell so deeply in love with the country that she dreamed of returning there when she grew up and becoming
a true Japanese woman. So, having learned Japanese and graduated from university, twenty-year-old Amélie arrives in Tokyo with the intention of settling there permanently.
Fear and Trembling is a captivating and witty novel about her struggle to become a model employee at a major Japanese company. Structured as a psychological duel between two beautiful women, it earned the young writer the Grand Prix of the French Academy. "Tokyo Bride" is the love story of the same Amélie with a handsome Japanese man, which nearly culminates in marriage. Both novels have been successfully adapted into films.
Fear and Trembling and Tokyo Bride are her most celebrated bestsellers. Both books are based on true events in the author's life. The daughter of a prominent Belgian diplomat, Amélie Nothomb spent her early childhood in Japan and fell so deeply in love with the country that she dreamed of returning there when she grew up and becoming
a true Japanese woman. So, having learned Japanese and graduated from university, twenty-year-old Amélie arrives in Tokyo with the intention of settling there permanently.
Fear and Trembling is a captivating and witty novel about her struggle to become a model employee at a major Japanese company. Structured as a psychological duel between two beautiful women, it earned the young writer the Grand Prix of the French Academy. "Tokyo Bride" is the love story of the same Amélie with a handsome Japanese man, which nearly culminates in marriage. Both novels have been successfully adapted into films.
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