& Ingenious With great delicacy Nothomb updates the age-old divide between East & West in this delectable little book& O The Oprah Magazine Amelie a well-intentioned & eager young westerner goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amelie but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror & self-abasement Disturbing hilarious & totally convincing Fear & Trembling displays an elegant & shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese relationships are made & spoiled &A vituperatively funny attack on an alien culture& Daily Telegraph& Nothomb is the latest enfant terrible of French letters
- she has an acidic yet passionately romantic view of human nature& Elle&A scathingly funny novella& Newsday