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She falls madly in love with a six year old Italian girl and attempts to gain the affections of cruel Elena. Based in part by Nothomb's own childhood experience in Beijing, the novel includes observations of China under the Gang of Four and on the way Westerners perceived China.
26 de jun. de 2021 · Loving sabotage. by. Nothomb, Amélie. Publication date. 2000. Publisher. New York : New Directions. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
Nothomb cleverly handles a number of complex themes with a deceptively light touch: the novel is never ponderous, and yet it is filled with insights (into love, politics, and childhood). Nothomb's blend of worldly and childish judgement's works beautifully throughout:
So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in...
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...
The narrator of Loving Sabotage (Le sabotage amoureux) is five when she arrives in Beijing in 1972 as the daughter of a Belgian diplomat. She joins the other children roaming unsupervised in the diplomatic enclave, engaged in a war which pits everyone else against the East Germans.
"So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the...
