num_pages: 132
description: Amélie, 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 Amélie, 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.
language: English
title: Fear and Trembling
titlecomplete: Fear and Trembling
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Roman, Japan, Belgium, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Belgian
ratings_count: 34398
places: Japan, Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Faber & Faber