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050 00 $aPQ2674.O778$bS2313 2000
082 00 $a843/.914$221
100 1 $aNothomb, Amélie.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95060494
240 10 $aSabotage amoureux.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00031947
245 10 $aLoving sabotage /$cby Amélie Nothomb ; with an afterword by the author ; translated by Andrew Wilson.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Directions,$c2000.
300 $a136 pages ;$c19 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a""I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China, I was seven years old."".
520 8 $a"So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's 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, she charges about the grim confines of the gated government housing ghetto of San Li Tun on her "horse" (bicycle). In a tireless battle against boredom, she concocts a fantasy life as rich as her surroundings are bleak.
520 8 $aDuring one of her tours of duty as a pathfinder in a war that has broken out in the ghetto between the children of various nations - a hilarious microcosm of "adult" world politics - she encounters a young Italian girl, Elena: beautiful, aloof, disdainful of silly games. Our heroine is instantly infatuated, and comes to realize the only fight worthy of her energies is shattering Elena's indifference."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDiplomatic and consular service$zChina$vFiction.
650 0 $aChildren$xConduct of life$vFiction.
650 0 $aCruelty$vFiction.
650 0 $aPlay$vFiction.
655 7 $aBlack humor (Literature)$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPQ2674.O778$iS2313 2000