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| Title | : | Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam |
| Author | : | Amélie Nothomb |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 245 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2007 by Albin Michel |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. France. Contemporary. Romance |
Amélie Nothomb
Paperback | Pages: 245 pages Rating: 3.7 | 7154 Users | 746 Reviews
Description To Books Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam
How do you know an author is talented? One way is when you cannot stop reading, even though not much is happening plotwise. This was Tokyo Finacee for me. Nothomb creates striking images with very few words, and their arresting quality is not lost in translation.(Note: The title is Tokyo Fiancée)
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"The concept of freedom has been spoken of so often that from the very first words I want to yawn. The physical experience of freedom, however, is something else all together. You should always have something to flee from, in order to cultivate this wonderful sense of possibility. Besides, you do always have something to flee -- even if it is only your own self.
The good news is that you can escape from yourself. What you are fleeing in yourself is the little prison that a settled way of life will build anywhere. Just pack your bags and off you go: the ego is so astonished that it forgets to play jail-keeper. You can shake yourself off the way you'd shake off your pursuers."
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| Original Title: | Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam |
| ISBN: | 222617964X (ISBN13: 9782226179647) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Literary Awards: | Prix de Flore (2007) |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 7154 Users | 746 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam
Dear Ms. Nothomb,Next time you act like a despicable human being and feel guilty about the reprehensible way you have treated someone, spare the lot of us the torture of being subject to your memoir writing.Just pick up the phone and tell the guy you're sorry.Sincerely,EliyannaThis is my first Nothomb experience and I love her style of writing. Very concise and no overuse of adjectives. She doesn't go into depth with her character descriptions yet they come to life so well - I feel that I really got to know these people. In me, it developed a greater curiosity for Japan and the beauty that she sees in such an interesting, and traditional country. I can't say I am a fan of her attitude/morals at the end; the way she understood that Rinri would respond like a gentleman
This is my first Nothomb experience and I love her style of writing. Very concise and no overuse of adjectives. She doesn't go into depth with her character descriptions yet they come to life so well - I feel that I really got to know these people. In me, it developed a greater curiosity for Japan and the beauty that she sees in such an interesting, and traditional country. I can't say I am a fan of her attitude/morals at the end; the way she understood that Rinri would respond like a gentleman
This one was a bit disappointing, especially after rereading her previous Japanese inspired book. It has bits and pieces of brilliance but over all it's more a "dialogue de sourds" where Amélie, the narrator does her thing and kinda has a love affair with this very atypical Japanese young man Rinri, who seems interesting but we never get to know him, we know even less at the end of the book, even why he was interested in Amélie. The words and style is gorgeous but they have no substance to make
The bulk of this book was more about culture clash than about a relationship, and I very much enjoyed the narrators musings on the pitfalls and delights of developing relationships in foreign languages. The problem is that the book reads very much like any 20-year-olds study abroad journal: theres a lot of reporting what happened, but no larger theme, no real character development, nothing to tie it together as a story. Until, of course, the very end, when the narrators attempts to draw
Orientalist garbage. The whole book is her expressing her "love" to Japan but this love never goes further than considering it as that weird and incomprehensible yet appealing culture and never makes an effort to see them as actual human beings. She constantly mocks their people while showing a weird obssesion with being "a real japanese", apparently much more worthy of the title than any other actual japanese person. All of this is obviously more evident in her relationship with Rinri; she
I'm between projects right now and cannot come up with any good ideas, so I'm just going to write about that time I lived in Japan for a while and dated a Japanese guy. I can't remember a lot of details, so I'll just keep it vague, which is fine cause it just needs to be 150 pages. The time wasn't significant: I didn't learn anything, grow as a person, or, even in retrospect, see how the event molded me into who I am today, so I don't need to establish what kind of person I was since I'm still
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