Amelie Nothomb, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-312-32055-3
Pregnant, insomniac Lucette combs an old encyclopedia for an original and fortifying name to protect her future daughter against life's woes in Am lie Nothomb's brief, unorthodox French bestseller The Book of Proper Names. Years after Lucette's...
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Amelie Nothomb. Europa Editions, $15.00 (144p) ISBN 978-1-60945-088-5
Belgian author Nothomb receives a letter from 400 pound US Army private Melvin Mapple in December 2008. Normally she would ignore it, but something makes her respond. This ordinary beginning to Nothomb's first English release since Tokyo Fiancée...
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Amélie Nothomb, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60945-290-2
“Intoxication doesn’t just happen. It’s an art,” Nothomb (Hygiene and the Assassin) writes in her latest novel, dripping with champagne and mischief. The protagonist,
Nothomb, is a bibulous author in search of a “comvinion” (a drinking companion)...
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Amelie Nothomb, Author, Andrew Wilson, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $23.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1459-9
Readers who have yet to discover the feather-ruffling pleasures of reading popular Belgian author Nothomb (The Stranger Next Door), winner of the Prix du Roman de L'Academie Francaise and other prizes, should jump at the chance with this utterly...
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Amélie Nothomb, trans. from the French by Alison Anderson, Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-933372-77-8
Written nearly two decades ago, this is the first novel of the award-winning Nothomb to be translated into English (beautifully so, by Alison Anderson). The shocking, morbid tale follows Prétextat Tach, a brilliant Nobel Prize–winning author who's...
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Amelie Nothomb, Author, Alison Anderson, Translator , trans. from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa $15 (152p) ISBN 978-1-933372-64-8
A darling of the French literary scene, Nothomb delivers a complex story of first love set in late 1980s and early ’90s Tokyo. Amélie is a 21-year-old Belgian student studying Japanese in Tokyo when she begins tutoring Rinri, a sweet,...
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Amelie Nothomb, Author, Adriana Hunter, Translator St. Martin's Press $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-27218-0
Following on the heels of her American debut (Loving Sabotage), Belgian novelist Nothomb's sharp, satiric new novel--winner of France's Grand Prix de l'Academie Fran aise and the Prix Internet du Livre--revolves around a young Western woman's...
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Amelie Nothomb, Author, Carol Volk, Translator Henry Holt & Company $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4841-4
Readers planning a picturesque retirement in rural France may wish to avoid this black comedy of bad manners, the first book to be published in America by young, prolific Goncourt-nominee Nothomb. mile and Juliette Hazel, lifelong sweethearts...
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