The Character Of Rain
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571220496 (0571220495)
Publish date: November 4th 2004
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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 ...
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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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