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Three French Novels You Should Read  The New York TimesNew translations include a lush historical novel about Michelangelo, a hybrid memoir/novel from a Nobel Prize winner and a mother-daughter melodrama.

50 best fiction books of 2018  The Seattle TimesThe most notable fiction works of the year, as selected by The Washington Post book editors. “An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones Roy and Celestial are ...

50 notable works of fiction in 2018  The Washington PostMost will break your heart. A few will help put it back together.

The Books Of September 2018 We Can't Wait To Read  Refinery29This past August, I was strangely immersed in spy-related pop culture. I interviewed a former spy about her sex life for The Spy Who Dumped Me, ...

Amélie Nothomb is a must-read author in France. ‘Strike Your Heart’ shows why.  The Washington Post“Strike Your Heart” is a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship and its lifelong implications. The title is apt: The reader ...

The summer-is-still-not-over reading list  European Council on Foreign RelationsWelcome to your summer reading list! No, summer is not over yet, and no, you won't be tested on these. Here at ECFR we have scoured our international ...

10 French Novels to Read Now  The New York TimesFrance is the “guest of honor” at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. Here are recent novels by some of the French writers who will be there.

Saufen, aber richtig  FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungAmélie Nothomb lässt die Korken knallen: Ihr zutiefst französischer Roman „Die Kunst, Champagner zu trinken“ ist eine Liebeserklärung an den Rausch und an ...

Pétronille by Amélie Nothomb review – a literary take on cinema's Manic Pixie Dream Girl  The GuardianThe two women at the core of Amélie Nothomb's 23rd novel find each other simultaneously bewitching, amusing and aggravating. The reader might be left with ...

Bad days at the office: the novels that turn work into a private hell  The GuardianIntense rivalries, horrible bosses, secretaries at war … desk jobs prove fertile psychological territory for novelists, as these fine examples show.

Film Review: ‘Tokyo Fiancee’  VarietyA Belgian free spirit recalls a winsome cross-cultural romance with her Japanese French-language student in “Tokyo Fiancee,” a charming if sometimes ...

'Tokyo Fiancee': Toronto Review  Hollywood ReporterBelgian director Stefan Liberski's adaptation of the Amelie Nothomb novel plays like "Amelie" meets "Lost in Translation"

Like Amélie Nothomb's books? See the film version of Stupeur et tremblements, Friday afternoon at the Cinémathèque Québécoise  Montreal GazetteI have wanted to watch Stupeur et tremblements since I saw a little snippet of it in the documentary Amélie Nothomb, une vie entre deux eaux, at the 2012 ...

Hygiene and the Assassin, by Amélie Nothomb  Globe and MailBefore cracking the spine of Amélie Nothomb's playful noir, beware: Your credentials as a reader, your folly in having allowed yourself to grow up and, for at ...

Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson  BookslutThe book is ubiquitous in France. For nearly two decades, Amélie Nothomb's debut novel Hygiène de l'assassin has enjoyed prime display real estate in French ...

Liberty, Equality, Envy  New York TimesIn Europe, and especially in France, there is envy for the faith that Americans have in their president.

Small Talk: Amélie Nothomb  Financial TimesAmélie Nothomb, 41, has published a novel every year since Hygiène de l'Assassin (1992). A phenomenally popular writer in France, Nothomb was born in ...

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This is the text : The book i read is "Les Combustibles" by Amelie Nothomb. This book is very interesting. I liked it very much. The book is based on a theathre with only 3 actors: Marina, The theacher & Daniel. Even if the action takes place in only one room,the "actors" manage to create an image of the war outside and of the university. The whole book's idea is about dehumanization and about the importance of books,and the three "actors",with completely different opinions,debate the subject about using or not books for combustibles for getting some heat in their room because they were freezing. The one i liked the most was The teacher. About him is observable that he is losing the "war against dehumanization". I also liked Marina because she already considered the war lost and she came with the idea of burning the books. I loved one of the teacher's quotes : "when we will burn the books,that's when we will lose the war!" In conclusion,Amelie's book surprised me with a very original theme.

I'm currently doing an awful French uni assignment (due soon!) and have to talk about the above after having studying Layla Metssitane's theatrical version of the book 'Stupeur et Tremblements' by Amélie Nothomb. Any suggestions/opinions welcome. Thanks in advance :)

When you drink excess amounts of water, you are in a state of something. I think it begins with hydro. I'm not really sure. I remember reading it in Amélie Nothomb's 'life of hunger' and now I can't remember what it was!! Can anyone help me? thank you x It's not what it leads to, it's the desire to drink a lot of water

i need a really good website that is like spark notes but in french, its a book i have too read, but its for my pregnant teacher so she do not have to read it. So please help!!!! I beg you!!! Ok the name of the book is "Mercure" by Amélie Nothomb. Can you help now?

Hello linguists, I am in my 4th year of learning french but am very capable and am at an a-level standard! Does anyone know any good books that are originally french (in french)! I don't mind if they are literature (that would be interesting) or modern - ITS ALL COOL! Thanks in advance! Hi ephy, thanks for your help; I should have mentioned that I have already read the series! Haha! Thank you anyway! :)