Title: Stupeur et tremblements
First published: 2001
Description: "According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor were to adopt a tone of fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amelie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine in this new novel by Amelie Nothomb, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amelie; working there turns into a comic nightmare.".

"Poor Amelie can do nothing right. She starts at the bottom of the corporate ladder and immediately reveals a genius for working her way down. She delivers mail, serves tea, updates calendars, photocopies the same pages a thousand times; her job description, fluid at best, runs relentlessly downstream. But of Amelie's many failings and ill-advised breaches of protocol, the worst by far is becoming infatuated with her immediate superior, the beautiful, impeccable, and implacable Miss Mori."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Foreign Visitors, Foreign workers, Young women, Japanese Corporations, Social life and customs, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Alien labor, Romance literature, French fiction, LITERATURA DE EXPRESSÃO FRANCESA, Deutsch, Hierarchie, Franzosisch, Frauenfeindlichkeit, Belgierin, Roman, Belletristische Darstellung, Unternehmen, Konzern, Ausgabe, Fiction, urban & street lit, Young women, fiction
Places: Japan
LC classification: PQ2674.O778 S7813 2001, PQ2674.O778 S78 1999