'Fear and Trembling' tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement.
In 'The Character of Rain', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state.
The extraordinary and tragic story of a brilliant young dancer at the mercy of her jealous aunt, from a phenomenally successful French writer. Amelie Nothomb (the model for the film Amelie) is one of France's most celebrated and controversial authors.
