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Un romanzo in cui tutto e improbabile, a cominciare dai nomi dei protagonisti: Zoile, impiegato di una societa elettrica con la passione per l'Odissea, Astrolabe, splendida ragazza che si prende cura di Alienor, scrittrice di successo che soffre di una curiosa forma di autismo. Affascinato da Astrolabe e infastidito da Alienor, Zoile inizia a frequentare le due donne cercando di insinuarsi in questa strana coppia. Un viaggio psichedelico e la bizzarra tecnica di seduzione messa in atto dal giovane per conquistare la bella ma l'esito sara disastroso, in tutti i sensi...

Novel·la negra que gira al voltant de la suplantació de personalitat.Si un convidat mor de sobte a casa seva, sobretot no avisi la policia", pontifica algú en un sopar, i Baptiste Bordave segueix aquest peculiar consell quan un personatge misterios -Olaf Sildur, un multimilionari suec- apareix a casa seva, li demana de fer una trucada i mor sobtadament a la sala d'estar. A partir del moment en que Baptiste decideix fer passar el cadaver del suec pel seu propi, se submergeix en una vida de somni, oci i plaers en un oasi en forma de mansio de luxe i amb gust de xampany. Un oasi habitat per una bellesa nordica a la qual Baptiste, que ara es Olaf, anomena Sigrid. Aquest sera l'escenari en que s'esdevindra una sorprenent historia d'amor, amb el rerefons sempre terrorific i fascinant de la usurpacio d'identitat, i el misteri de la mort de l'autentic Olaf Sildur. Pero A les meves ordres es, abans que res, una faula sobre la conquesta de la llibertat d'un no-ningu. D'un home sense atributs del segle xxi al qual un dia es concedeix el desig de començar una nova vida. Qui no es desentendria del cadaver d'aquest doble que ha mort davant nostre en canvi de la vida somiada?a

stunningly funny novel about the gap between East and West, and the story of a young woman who falls straight into it. Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Academie Franç:aise and the Prix Internet du Livre, this taut tour-de-force of a novel created a sensation in France, where it has sold nearly half a million copies. Fear and Trembling tells the story of Amelie, a young Western woman who spends a year working at a Japanese corporation. She soon learns that at theYumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything. Keep to your place and you survive; break ranks and you will be broken. The determined but hapless Amelie makes mistake after mistake, not least of which is deigning to sympathize with her immediate superior, the beautiful, efficient, and ice-cold Miss Mori. A perverse process of ritual humiliation follows. But even as Amelie's life at theYumimoto Corporation spirals inexorably and hilariously downward, what she learns about herself and her colleagues in this brilliant novel will alternately delight and outrage readers. Not since Marguerite Duras has a novelist so indelibly marked the differences between East and West, and with such seductive honesty.

Antéchrista, best-selling novelist Amélie Nothomb's latest book, is a sharply funny story about the entertaining struggle between an introverted outsider and an extroverted insider. "On the first day, I saw her smile. From that very moment, I wanted to know her." Blanche, like everyone in the novel, is instantly drawn to the beautiful and popular Christa. But Blanche is the outcast of her high school; she has no friends, social life, love interest, or nice clothes, only a passion for reading alone in her room. Therefore no one is more surprised than Blanche when Christa asks to sleep over at her house once a week to avoid her long commute to school. As Blanche's parents are won over by Christa's charm and vitality - two qualities their own daughter seemingly lacks - the weekly sleepovers become more frequent until one day, to Blanche's shock and outrage, they offer Christa a permanent bed in their daughter's room! Blanche, meanwhile, begins to regret what she wished for. Christa slowly intrudes on her personal space, undermines her in front of her parents, subjects her to tedious recaps of her vacuous life, and cruelly chisels away at her already non-existent self-esteem. Yet Christa's escalating narcissism and spitefulness go largely unnoticed because of the strong spell she has cast over everyone else. Only Blanche knows her by another, and truer, name: Antéchrista. This darkly comic tale blends together everyone's deepest high school anxieties with notions of good and evil to create another one of Nothomb's characteristically amusing, profound, and unforgettable works.

« Ce qui est monstrueux n’est pas nécessairement indigne. » Amélie Nothomb Le comte Henri Neville est aux prises avec les tourments d’adolescence de Sérieuse, sa fille cadette, la désinvolture de

« Aucun journal, aucune agence de presse, aucune historiographie n'a jamais mentionné la guerre mondiale du ghetto de San Li Tun, qui dura de 1972 à 1975. C'est à la faveur de cette barbarie

« L’art a une tendance naturelle à privilégier l’extraordinaire. » Amélie Nothomb

«Pour un écrivain, il n'est pas de plus grande tentation que d'écrire la biographie de son assassin. Robert des noms propres : un titre de dictionnaire pour évoquer tous les noms qu'aura

Una forma de vida es una nova entrega autobiogràfica d'Amelie Nothomb, una de les autores mes importants del panorama europeu actual. Aquí ens reprodueix la correspondencia que mante amb en Melvin Ma

Plectrude is an orphan with a gift for dance. She is looked after by her aunt who falls obsessively in love with her. This is a tale of lost mothers, haunted adolescence and fate. This mind-blowing little fable was a best-seller in France, where Belgian writer Nothomb has a cult following. It's hard to imagine a postmodern novel in translation achieving widespread popular success here, but the book's themes--ballet, anorexia, the redemptive power of love--certainly make it more accessible than the works of, say, Haruki Murakami. Nothomb tells the vaguely surreal story of an extraordinary little girl who overcomes a tragic infancy (her mother murdered her father, gave birth, then hung herself) and an unfortunate name (Plectrude) to revel in a fairy-dust-sprinkled childhood. Her age of innocence comes to an end when she enters the Paris Opera Ballet School, a rigorous institution portrayed as a 'scalpel to slice away the last flesh of childhood.' Eating disorders and their proliferating meanings are major themes, but the detached, slightly elevated prose, interspersed with commentary by the third-person narrator, is sufficiently inventive to avoid the air of a manifesto. Nothomb delivers her main character to the doorstep of adulthood with a cheekily absurdist ending that will jolt fans of experimental literature. Jennifer Mattson

Intel·ligent, penetrant i amb un punt de malícia.AntichristaLa Blanche té 16 anys, pocs amics i no gaire empenta. La seva vida és buida i poc viscuda; no té idees pròpies i ni tan sols està segura de