by Amélie Nothomb, Shaun Whiteside
Gothic Nirvana! Each novella I read by Nothomb makes my skin go all bumpy. She oozes such beautiful, dark, twisted and elegant writing. This story follows the tragic story of Plectrude, an orphan taken in by her Aunt. The background of this girl is tragic and what happens throughout the story is dee...
Intriguing idea, but poorly executed. Read it until the end but I didn't get that feeling the story is done. And I didn't get the ending either. Read the last two pages twice but I was still as confused as ever. Still is now. It leaves me with a bad aftertaste, like giving me the feeling of not acc...
Plectrude, the main character of this book, knows nothing about her past. She is unaware of the fact that her mother killed her father and then killed herself. She knows nothing about her mother’s dreams that she “not be limited at all.” There is something special about Plectrude, nevertheless, and ...
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