by Amélie Nothomb · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497871679
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«Biografia de la fam» is the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (146 pages, in Spanish).
Amélie Nothomb reconstructs her childhood and youth through the sensation of hunger and the episode of anorexia that marked two years of her life. The work becomes an apology for voracity: hunger for languages, books, alcohol, chocolate, beauty and discoveries, told between ecstasy and horror, with humour and lucidity.
The edition of «Biografia de la fam» was published in February 2006 within the Anagrama/Empúries collection; the original text is French.
A title for readers of contemporary fiction and of the work 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.
