Loving Sabotage
Author | Amélie Nothomb |
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Original title | Le Sabotage amoureux |
Translator | Andrew Wilson |
Language | English translated from French |
Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1993 |
Publication place | France |
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Preceded by | Hygiene and the Assassin |
Followed by | Human Rites |
Loving Sabotage (French: Le Sabotage amoureux) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 1993 by the Albin Michel.[citation needed]
Plot
The narrator of Loving Sabotage is a five-year-old girl who arrives in Beijing in 1972 as the daughter of a Belgian diplomat. She joins the other children in the diplomatic enclave, engaged in various nasty wars. She owns a bicycle, which she has convinced herself is a horse. She falls madly in love with a six-year-old Italian girl and attempts to gain the affections of cruel Elena. Based in part by Nothomb's own childhood experience in Beijing, the novel includes observations of China under the Gang of Four and on the way Westerners perceived China.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
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- Hygiène de l'assassin (1992)
- Le Sabotage amoureux (1993)
- Les Catilinaires (1995)
- Péplum (1996)
- Attentat (1997)
- Mercure (1998)
- Stupeur et tremblements (1999)
- Métaphysique des tubes (2000)
- Cosmétique de l'ennemi (2001)
- Robert des noms propres (2002)
- Antéchrista (2003)
- Biographie de la faim (2004)
- Acide sulfurique (2005)
- Journal d'Hirondelle (2006)
- Ni d'Eve, ni d'Adam (2007)
- Le Fait du prince (2008)
- Le Voyage d'Hiver (2009)
- Une forme de vie (2010)
- Tuer le père (2011)
- Barbe bleue (2012)
- La nostalgie heureuse (2013)
- Petronille (2014)
- Le Crime du comte Neville (2015)
- Riquet à la houppe (2016)
- Strike your Heart (2017)
- Les prénoms épicènes (2018)
- Soif (2019)
- Les aérostats (2020)
- Premier sang (2021)
- Le Livre des soeurs (2022)
- Les Combustibles (1994)
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