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When Blanche's mother, who finds her own daughter rather dull, is dazzled by Christa, she invites her to stay at the house. Suddenly Christa can do no wrong and, as Blanche's parents invite friends to dinner to meet the newcomer, their friendship sours and...

We find ourselves before a boldly autobiographical book that is also a contagious defence of the appetite. The author confirms that, although the entire story is true, what differentiates the novel from reality is its writing. Despite having suffered from anorexia for two years,...

This book combines six autobiographical novels by the Belgian writer, covering episodes from her childhood, adolescence, living in the East, and several trips to Japan where she faces their delirious business world, reunites with the nanny who cared for her as a child, and...

This is the second Compendium dedicated to one of the house's distinguished authors and brings together the works in which Nothomb exploits her extraordinary capacity to reveal the darkest and most disturbing part of our daily world, even in the areas where we most...

Jérôme Angust, a bussiness man, is waiting at the airport gate for his delayed flight. He starts reading a book to kill time until an unknown man, Textor Texel, tries to start a conversation with him; despite Jérôme's lack of interest in the conversation,...

Seduction and murder, beauty as a mortal danger, individual talent as a cursed part, to put it in Bataille's words, are the constants in Nothomb's work since his surprising first novel, Murderer's Hygiene (1992); Since then he has continued to have a central place...

Count Neville goes to a psychic's house to pick up his youngest daughter. The psychic found the girl in the forest escaping from the family castle. The psychic takes his hand and announces: "You will soon host a party in your home. During the...

An exploration of devastating parental indifference and an ode to the exaltation of the power of brotherly love. At the heart of this story, which captivates from the first page, are the complex relationships between parents and children, the bonds between sisters and eating...

So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her world of the concrete...

This novel is an inspiring autobiography that has been enormously successful in France. The book tells the story of a young Belgian girl who goes to Tokyo to work for a large Japanese company. But in a country so deeply hierarchical, the girl is...

Marie is the prettiest girl in her hometown, dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and she loves it. She falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana; things change. Diana steals the hearts of all who...

This book is an adaptation of the successful podcast of the same name by Amélie Nothomb produced with Laureline Amanieux, enriched with texts and quotes amply illustrated. Amélie Nothomb takes us on a journey through Japan, its myths, its rites and its traditional arts:...

A novel about the rage and restlessness of youth and about literature as the engine of the world. Amélie Nothomb's twenty-ninth novel is a kind of praise for reading, but nothing trivial, nothing predictable and, above all, nothing innocent.

Claude and Dominique have a daughter named Épicène. Claude and Dominique have settled in Paris, and driven by a social ambition, they befriend a couple from the high financial bourgeoisie, whose daughters go to school with Épicène. A couple with whom Claude has a...

Pipe Metaphysics tells the story of the first three years of life of a being obsessed with water that, dissatisfied with its environment, adopts the inert form of a pipe as its existential condition. With the cruelty, humor and realism, the author recalls, through...

/ La primera noche de pasión se inicia con un cómico episodio en que profesora y alumno comparten una insípida imitación japonesa de la célebre fondue de queso francesa; le seguirán un viaje a Hiroshima y la lectura insitu de Hiroshima mon amour, un...

The on-again/off-again friendship between Pétronille and the main character in the book, who happens to be a writer by the name of Amélie Nothomb, gives the story its verve and the novel its heart. A literary Thelma & Louise, with a little bit of French panache and...

On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is...

Déodat is the ugliest baby in the world, but as he grows up he will prove to have a privileged mind. However, he will have serious difficulties to understand the mysteries of love and what girls want. Trémière, on the other hand, is a...

In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus’s final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection, Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many...