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Fear and Trembling

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking40649in
CHF19.50

Description

'Fear and Trembling' tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-571-22048-9
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
PublisherFaber & Faber
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date19/08/2004
EditionMain
Pages144 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 125 mm, Height 200 mm, Thickness 10 mm
Weight135 g
Article no.1069788
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.1278792
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Author

Belgian by nationality, Amélie Nothomb was born in Kobe, Japan, and currently lives in Paris. Described by Time Magazine as 'prolific and ingenious', she is the best-selling author of numerous novels, translated into over thirty languages, including Fear and Trembling which won the Grand Prix of the Académie Française and the Prix Internet du Livre, and The Book of Proper Names which has sold over 250,000 copies in France. Adriana Hunter has been working as a literary translator since 1998 and has now translated over fifty books from the French including, for Portobello Books, Véronique Ovaldé's Kick the Animal Out (a finalist for The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize) and And My See-Through Heart. She has three children and lives in Norfolk.

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