The Character of Rain
The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amélie Nothomb's new novel The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a...
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The Japanese believe that until the age of three children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amélie Nothomb's new novel The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312302481 (0312302487)
Publish date: April 23rd 2003
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Family,
Contemporary,
Asia,
Roman,
French Literature,
German Literature,
Belgian
Really 2.5*: it's not a bad book, but I didn't really enjoy it (fortunately, it's very short). This describes Nothomb's life from her birth until her third birthday. The youngest child of a Belgian diplomat in Japan, she tells it with the Japanese assumption that children are gods until their third ...
I certainly have no idea how much of it is fiction and how much real memories. I could argue about the impossibility of one remembering actual facts from birth till the 3rd birthday, but it's definitely not important and I can't expect everybody to have my poor memory. Anyway, she freely admits hers...
Ein weiteres Buch von Amélie Nothomb, das ich genauso schnell ausgelesen habe wie die anderen. Ich finde ihren Schreibstil, ihre Art, Geschichten zu erzählen sehr speziell, aber auch unheimlich mitreißend und spannend.Nachdem mich das letzte ihrer Bücher, das ich gelesen hatte, unsagbar wütend gemac...
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