The character of rain
Subtitle: a novel
By: Amélie Nothomb ; translated by Timothy Bent.
Contributors: Bent, Timothy.
Edition: 1st US ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Description: "The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state."--BOOK JACKET.