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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro. Novela corta en la que la autora, hija de un diplomatico belga, narra acontecimientos de su vida en China, cuando tenia 7 anos. La historia, narrada con un gran sentido del humor, es muy divertida e imaginativa. Una de las partes mas simpaticas del libro es su relacion con Elena, una nina de 6 anos a la que ella adora, pero que la ignora y rechaza sus intentos de amistad, este es un patron que parece marcar otras relaciones posteriores de su vida que refleja en otras obras. (  ) alalba | May 9, 2009 |  If there is one thing that I just love about Amelie Nothomb it is her uncanny ability of seeing humor in every situation. This little novel (a short 128 pages) is told through the eyes of her 7 year old self living in Peking. What with the piss/vomit/general hazing wars the French kids have versus the Germans of the East, her adventures on her horse, and her reflections on Chinese communism, Amelie takes us on a grandiose (for a 7 year old) journey in 70s China. Truly marvelous is her characterization of every person and object in her neighborhood as she struggles to gain the affections of Elena, a pretty little Italian girl who is just full of herself. Once again I will mention that Amelie Nothomb's novels about her childhood are her forte and this one is certainly not to be missed. (This is the 14th book of Nothomb's that I read and so my ratings for her are meant to be against her other novels. So out of all her novels, the ones rated 5 stars are the best.) (  ) lilisin | Jan 27, 2009 | I just finished reading Le Sabotage Amoureux by Amelie Nothomb (English title: Loving Sabotage). This is the second book I've read by Nothomb. The first was Fear and Trembling. Nothomb's writing is simple and flowing, yet she manages to surprise the reader with deep insights into everyday situations and happenings. In Le Sabotage Amoureux she writes from the perspective of a small girl, daughter to a Belgian diplomat, growing up in the early 70s in Beijing, China. Based on her own experiences as a child, Nothomb succeeds to expose the intricacies of a child's mind and its charming imagination: skirmishes between children become an all-out war, a bicycle becomes a galloping horse and an infatuation with another girl becomes a dramatic love story. Apparently, Nothomb has become somewhat of a cult figure among readers in francophone countries. It's easy to see why. Treat yourself to some enchanting moments with this short and delightful book. (  ) ashergabbay | Aug 13, 2008 | A quick read with a spunky character. An unusual look at childhood and the bubble that it is. (  ) bertonek | Jan 13, 2008 |  beata | Dec 12, 2005 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0571226639, Paperback)Here in its American debut edition, Loving Sabotage is the remarkable second novel by young Belgian literary phenomenon Amelie Nothomb. "I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was in China, I was seven years old." So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world of the concrete ghetto of San Li Tun on her "horse" -- her bicycle -- with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. "From puberty onwards," she announces at one point, "life is just an epilogue." On the battlefield of an asphalt playground, in between "wars" with the children of other nations, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her coldly indifferent "Helen of Troy." But she soon learns life's hardest rule: if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. A fast, furious -- and often hilarious -- novel of childhood infatuation and intuited truths, Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) A primeira ronda de testes foi já encerrada. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais informação. |
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