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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.
1 de ene. de 1993 · A wonderfully evocative semi-autobiographical(?) account by Nothomb. A true tour de force! She recounts as best as she can, her time in Peking (now Beijing), telling the story of how a seven-year old's desperate infatuation, with an angelic six year old, Elena, taught her so much about love, desire and need.
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...
26 de jun. de 2021 · Loving sabotage. by. Nothomb, Amélie. Publication date. 2000. Publisher. New York : New Directions. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
A+ : a charming, fascinating, and beautiful novel about childhood and love. See our review for fuller assessment. From the Reviews: "In Loving Sabotage, however, Nothomb's self-assurance and faux-naif approach work to best effect. The novel is a charming and clever entertainment.
'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...
"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 mid-seventies, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government housing ghetto of San Li Tun on her "horse" (bicycle).
