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Amelie Nothomb
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Loving Sabotage |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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144 |
| Date: |
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2005-11-03 |
| ISBN: |
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0571226639 |
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Faber and Faber |
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0.22 pounds |
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4.88 x 0.0 x 7.72 inches |
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1 Rise (Philippines) |
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1 lassi (Philippines) |
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Product Description
'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). 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.
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http://bookmooch.com/0571226639 |
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