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Original Title:	Le Sabotage Amoureux
Edition Language:	French
Literary Awards:	Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (1993), Prix Jacques-Chardonne (1993)

Le Sabotage amoureux

Amélie Nothomb

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 124 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 3993 Users | 272 Reviews

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Title	:	Le Sabotage amoureux
Author	:	Amélie Nothomb
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 124 pages
Published	:	April 24th 1996 by Le Livre de Poche (first published August 27th 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Contemporary. Roman

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Saviez-vous qu'un pays communiste, c'est un pays où il y a des ventilateurs ? Que de 1972 à 1975, une guerre mondiale a fait rage dans la cité-ghetto de San Li Tun, à Pékin ? Qu'un vélo est en réalité un cheval ? Que passé la puberté, tout le reste n'est qu'un épilogue ? Vous l'apprendrez et bien d'autres choses encore dans ce roman inclassable, épique et drôle, fantastique et tragique, qui nous conte aussi une histoire d'amour authentique, absolu, celui qui peut naître dans un coeur de sept ans. Un sabotage amoureux : sabotage, comme sous les sabots d'un cheval qui est un vélo... Avec ce roman, son deuxième livre, Amélie Nothomb s'est imposée comme un des noms les plus prometteurs de la jeune génération littéraire.

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LOVED this perspective on childhood by a VERY worldly, mature and self aware child with an amazing memory, a strong metaphysical understanding and a fantastic sense of humor. NOT THIS COVER though. It is published in many languages and with MANY covers. This is the worst of them all.

One of the things I admire most about Loving Sabotage was that the author has imagined children of such extraordinary meanness, and has allowed this reality about children to be expressed on the page. The book feels like a layered meditation, from an adult perspective, on the egoism of young children, as well as a lovely tribute to the despair of first love.

This book is hilarious. I only hope that my daughters' inner worlds are as spectacular as this protagonist's. Think Louise from Bob's Burgers. Love this little girl and can't wait to read more of this author's work.

Amelie Nothomb's "Loving Sabotage" is an absolutely charming little book. It is an evocation of the author's childhood in Beijing (then called Peking) in the early Seventies and, at the same time, it is a damning critique of China of these times and a sharp study of human nature. Ms. Nothomb's parents, both diplomats, are stationed in Peking along with diplomats from many countries, living in a restricted area (the 'ghetto'). All children roam the streets together and play an elaborate war game:

I'm not very sure how this book made me feel. It's my second experience with Nothomb and I just find myself unable to describe her personality. It's like I'm standing in front of a huge labyrinth and someone is saying "Go get the cheese". But for God sake "I'M NOT SEEING THE CHEESE, I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT IS EVEN".Nothomb's few pages are rich of ideas and sentiments, the way you feel that you just finished a 500 pages book. she doesn't explain too much, she doesn't repeat or rewrite any idea.

What an odd little book, a complete departure from some of the other books Ive read. Narrated in by a seven-year old diplomats child, the book muses on childhood love and obsession, human love of war, and a girl named Elena, all in voice that is at times funny, weird, and far too observant.The book is full of gross scenes, of bodily waste being used as weapons by children living an unsupervised existence which most 21st century children could not imagine. The narrator spends most of the novel

A strange little book, recounting Nothomb's years, aged 5 to 8, living in a diplomatic compound in China in the 1970s. She assures us it's true in an afterword, but even allowing for the benefit of hindsight when adding facts and attributing thoughts to her younger self, some of the things she got up to seem implausible for one so young. She even says "I will never surpass my analytical achievements as a five-year-old", although that is partly in jest because she goes on to explain her early