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Nothomb A.: Barbe bleue

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Saturnine Puissant se présente à une offre de colocation. Sur place, elle apprend que le propriétaire multiplie les conquêtes mais que ces dernières disparaissent. Saturnine s'installe néanmoins, tombe sous le charme de don Elemirio et découvre que l'homme cryogénise ses femmes. Un clin d'oeil au conte de Perrault, entre humour, suspense et analyse des…

Nothomb A.: Loving Sabotage

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 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…

Nothomb A.: The Character of Rain

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The 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…