The life of hunger
By: Amélie Nothomb ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Nothomb, Amélie. -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.; Hunger -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Biographie de la faim.
Description: The daughter of a Belgian diplomat, Amelie had an itinerant childhood, ranging from Tokyo to Peking and Paris to New York by way of Bangladesh. Recounting these formative journeys right up to her return to Japan in 1989, and the Kobe earthquake, this work is an examination of the self.
Notes: Translated from the French.