Title: The life of hunger
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.
Subjects: Hunger, Childhood and youth, Fiction, Fiction, general
People: Amélie Nothomb