Books by Amelie Nothomb

Portrait of Amelie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian-born author celebrated for her sharp wit, philosophical insight, and distinctive narrative voice. Writing originally in French, she has built an impressive body of work that explores identity, obsession, and the complexities of human relationships, often with a darkly comic twist. Her concise prose and inventive storytelling have earned her numerous literary awards and a devoted international readership.

Each new novel from Nothomb offers a fresh perspective on the absurdities of modern life, blending elegance with emotional intensity. Whether drawing on myth, autobiography, or pure imagination, her fiction invites readers into worlds that are both unsettling and irresistibly engaging, affirming her place as one of contemporary literature's most original voices.

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  • Fear and Trembling by Nothomb Amelie  Author  ON

    Faber & Faber Fear and Trembling by Nothomb Amelie Author ON

    2 in stock

    Book Synopsis''Ingenious . . . With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.'' O, The Oprah MagazineAmélie, 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.''A vituperatively funny attack on an alien culture.'' Daily Telegraph''Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters - she has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature.'' Elle''A scathingly funny novella.'' NewsdayTrade Review"'Ingenious... With great delicacy, Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East and West in this delectable little book.' O, The Oprah Magazine; 'Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters... She has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature.' Elle"

    2 in stock

    £9.49

  • Editorial Anagrama sed

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £17.69

  • The Character of Rain

    Faber & Faber The Character of Rain

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or ''Lord Child''. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of mankind. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals how this fall from grace can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover.''Nothomb potently distils from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory - that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.'' New York Times''Amélie Nothomb, like an urchin about to pick your pocket, has frighteningly clear eyes and a disarming voice with a wicked snap.'' Luc SanteTrade Review"'French literary lioness Nothomb imagines the inner life of her first two years of childhood, richly depicting this wondrous secret universe.' Elle; 'Potently distills from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory.' New York Times"

    1 in stock

    £9.49

  • Albin Michel Tant mieux

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £23.44

  • Hachette Premier Sang

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £10.92

  • Le Livre de poche Metaphysique des tubes

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £10.18

  • Antechrista

    Le Livre de poche Antechrista

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    3 in stock

    £10.21

  • Mercure

    Le Livre de poche Mercure

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.21

  • Fear and Trembling

    St Martin's Press Fear and Trembling

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    Book SynopsisAlternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Amélie Nothomb''s Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight. According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, 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 Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare.

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    £12.74

  • Loving Sabotage

    Faber & Faber Loving Sabotage

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis''I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China, I was seven years old.'' So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb''s critically acclaimed novel about a young girl already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world on her ''horse'' (bicycle) with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. ''From puberty onwards'', she announces at one point, ''life is just an epilogue''. There, on the asphalt-playground-battlefield, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her very own coldly indifferent ''Helen of Troy''. But she also learns life''s hardest rule: that if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. Poignant, provocative - and often hilarious - Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl''s precocious understanding of Trade Review"Amelie Nothomb is such an utter astonishment, the shock of reading her for the first time is like realising you have missed a whole movement, or a century, in the scheme of things.' Scotland on Sunday

    1 in stock

    £9.49

  • Sulphuric Acid

    Faber & Faber Sulphuric Acid

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisSulphuric Acid tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation''s obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. It is a blackly funny and shocking satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood.Trade Review"'It's always fun to take a journey inside her extraordinary Belgian brain.' Dan Rhodes"

    3 in stock

    £9.49

  • Strike Your Heart

    Europa Editions Strike Your Heart

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe most destructive mechanisms of the soul, laid bare. Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial hometown and is dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and she loves it. When she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change. Diana steals the hearts of all who meet her, inciting nothing but jealousy in her mother. This is Diana's story. The story of a young, brilliant woman who grows up without maternal affection. It is the story of Diana's relationships with other women: her best friend, the sweet Elisabeth; her mentor, the selfish Olivia; her sister, the beloved Célia; and, of course, her mother. It is a story about the baser sentiments that often animate human relations: rivalry, jealousy, distrust.With her trademark wit, brevity, and tightly wound plots, Nothomb has devised a telling adult fable about human relationships and the mother-daughter bond.

    2 in stock

    £11.69

  • Europa Editions Thirst

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £12.75

  • Thirst

    Europa Editions (UK) Ltd Thirst

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Gospel according to Amélie Jesus is perhaps the most universally known figure in the Western world, yet he remains one of the most obscure. In her reinterpretation of the story of the Passion and crucifixion, Nothomb gives voice to a transgressive Messiah, the son of God portrayed as deeply human. Not so much because of his broken chastity vows, rather because of his inability to forgive himself for the pointless and sadistic mise-en-scène that is the Passion. It all starts with the farcical trial at the court of Pontius Pilate. When the witnesses for the prosecution stand up one by one, they turn out to be, paradoxically, the very ones who were healed by Jesus’ miracles, from the disgruntled beggar no longer able to solicit alms, to the man who, freed from satanic possession, now finds his life fatally boring. As the familiar, harrowing tale unfolds in all its dramatic intensity, Nothomb veers from the tragic to the comic, from deep compassion to cold mercilessness. She distils the essence of life down to its basic components – love, death and thirst – revealing that real human strength resides in the body, not in the spirit.Trade Review“Amélie Nothomb is such an utter astonishment, the shock of reading her for the first time is like realizing you have inadvertently missed a whole movement, or century, in the scheme of things.” * Scotland on Sunday *“Strike Your Heart is a finely honed, piercing novel. No wonder it is acclaimed in France. If you are human, it will strike your heart, too.” * The Washington Post *

    2 in stock

    £10.79

  • First Blood

    Europa Editions (UK) Ltd First Blood

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man is facing a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He reflects on his childhood with a distant mother, and the moments which have led to him finding himself staring death in the face. Patrick Nothomb is a young diplomat, aged 28, when he is taken hostage with thousands of others in Stanleyville (now Kisangani) by rebels. Over the course of four months, Nothomb has negotiated with his captors each and every day, saving the lives of 1500 citizens. Inspired by the life of her father, who died at the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, Amélie Nothomb slips into his shoes to give voice to his story.Trade Review"Nothomb's crystalline re-remembrance is a spellcasting, one-sitting read that's Technicolor vivid and rich in joy, humor, and love." * Booklist *“This book is a gem.” * Le Parisien *“Amélie Nothomb at her best: cruel, tender and funny.” * Télérama *“A book bubbling in delightful humour and exuberant vitality.” * Le Figaro *

    1 in stock

    £13.49

  • Le livre des soeurs

    Michel albin SA Le livre des soeurs

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £21.56

  • Albin Michel LImpossible retour

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    £22.80

  • La nostalgie heureuse

    Librairie generale francaise La nostalgie heureuse

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.20

  • Le Crime du comte Neville

    Librairie generale francaise Le Crime du comte Neville

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    £9.55

  • Riquet a la houppe Littrature

    Le Livre de poche Riquet a la houppe Littrature

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £10.21

  • Les prenoms  epicenes

    Le Livre de poche Les prenoms epicenes

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £9.36

  • Hygiene de l'assassin

    Librairie generale francaise Hygiene de l'assassin

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    £10.53

  • Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam

    Librairie generale francaise Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £10.21

  • Une forme de vie

    Librairie generale francaise Une forme de vie

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.07

  • Tuer le pere

    Librairie generale francaise Tuer le pere

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £8.90

  • Librairie generale francaise Barbe bleue

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £8.95

  • Hachette Le Livre des soeurs

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £10.35

  • Hachette Psychopompe

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £10.92

  • Frappe-toi le coeur

    Le Livre de poche Frappe-toi le coeur

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £9.98

  • Les Aerostats

    Le Livre de poche Les Aerostats

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.36

  • Stupeur et tremblements de Amélie Nothomb (fiche

    Comprendre La Litterature Stupeur et tremblements de Amélie Nothomb (fiche

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    £17.91

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. Antchrista

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £7.16

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Ambivalenz

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £18.00

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Der belgische Konsul

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £20.70

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Das Buch der Schwestern

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £18.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Psychopompos

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £20.70

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Die Reinheit des Mrders

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Der Professor

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Quecksilber

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Kosmetik des Bösen

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £10.45

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Bses Mdchen

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £9.50

  • Diogenes Verlag AG RealityShow

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Biographie des Hungers

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Der japanische Verlobte

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Blaubart

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £9.50

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Eine heitere Wehmut

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £9.50

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Die Kunst Champagner zu trinken

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Tte mich Roman

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £9.50

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