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Ideal for readers interested in: cross-cultural stories, workplace satire, contemporary international fiction, and incisive humour exploring East-West differences.
A hapless young Western woman spends a year toiling in a Japanese company, making one terrible cultural blunder after another as she struggles to survive in an unfamiliar environment. By the author of The Stranger Next Door and Loving Sabotage. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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In this taut tour-de-force of a novel, an international bestseller, a young Western woman named Amelie spends a year working at a Japanese corporation. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation, hierarchy means everything. Keep to your place and you survive; break ranks and you will be broken.
The determined but hapless Amelie makes mistake after mistake, not least of which is deigning to sympathise with her immediate superior, the beautiful, efficient and ice-cold Miss Mori. A perverse process of ritual humiliation follows.
But even as Amelie's life at the Yumimoto Corporation spirals inexorably and hilariously downwards, what she learns about herself and her colleagues in this brilliant novel will alternately outrage and delight readers.
Fear and Trembling is an insightful exploration of cultural clashes and personal discovery.
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"Elegantly written . . . Nothomb demonstrates a shrewd understanding of the intricate ways Japanese relationships are made and spoiled." – The New York Times Book Review
"A polished little satire." – The Wall Street Journal
"A scathingly funny novella." – Newsday (New York)
"Amรฉlie Nothomb adds humour, often missing in contemporary French writers, with a style that is simple, honest, and elegant." – Los Angeles Times
"Highly recommended." – Library Journal
"A sharp, satiric new novel with spare, self-deprecating and wise storytelling." – Publishers Weekly
"Highly entertaining and filled with droll observations and wry humour." – Kirkus Reviews
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780312288570
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 April 2002
Country: United States
Imprint: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 193.0mm
Weight: 115g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
Amelie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan, and now lives in Paris. Her previous works include "The Stranger Next Door" and "Loving Sabotage".
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