In this novel the author recalls events in her childhood and adolescence, which she spent living in different countries, given that her father was a diplomat. It is an amusing book, but less interenting than her other autobiographical works. ( )

Amelie Nothomb revisits her youth as we follow her from Japan to Pekin, New York, Bangladesh, a brief stop in Belgium and her ending back in Japan where we all know what awaits her from her novel "Stupeur et tremblements". These novels are her most noteworthy in my opinion as she has an uncanny ability to describe life through the eyes of a child; a cunning and highly intellectual child. (This was also seen in "Metaphysique des tubes" where she described her childhood in Japan.)

This book is highly amusing as we follow through her hunger for sweets, new experiences, childhood romance, water, for not being hungry and so forth. A quick read, this novel reaffirms my faith in Nothomb's skills after a few deceptively poor novels. ( )

Des romans d'Amélie Nothomb pas celui que j'aie trouvé le plus intéressant, mais pas mal quand même !

Amélie nos cuenta su infancia y juventud nuevamente, ahora desde el prisma del "hambre", que es hambre no solo de comida sino de deseo, de nuevas emociones, de vida, en suma.. ( )

The daughter of a Belgian diplomat, Amelie had an itinerant childhood, ranging from Tokyo to Peking and Paris to New York by way of Bangladesh. Recounting these formative journeys right up to her return to Japan in 1989, and the Kobe earthquake, "The Life of Hunger" is an examination of the self.