by Amélie Nothomb · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497110686
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«El sabotaje amoroso» is the contemporary fiction novel by Belgian author Amélie Nothomb, published by Quinteto in paperback (159 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator recalls her childhood in Beijing, where her family lives in a district reserved for diplomats. At seven years old, the girl falls in love with Elena, an Italian girl her age; amid games, jealousy and childish betrayals, that friendship reveals to her the first wounds of love and the difficulty of growing up in an alien world.
Original French: «Le sabotage amoureux», published in 1993. Translation by Sergi Pàmies. Number 290 of the Quinteto collection; 2008 edition.
For readers of contemporary fiction and coming-of-age novels, as well as for those who want to discover the autobiographical narrative of Amélie Nothomb.
Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb, better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb, is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia.
