Fear and Trembling
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Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing, Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made and spoiled.
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Fear and Trembling, Amélie Nothomb
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- 2006
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- Title
- Fear and Trembling
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amélie Nothomb
- Publisher
- Faber
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571233899
- ISBN13
- 9780571233892
- Category
- World prose
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- Amelie, a well-intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie, but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing, Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made and spoiled.