by Amélie Nothomb · Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020254625
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«Hygiène de l'assassin» is the novel by Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb, published by Seuil in paperback (180 pages, in French).
Prétextat Tach, an eighty-three-year-old Nobel Prize winner in literature, is an obese misanthrope with only two months left to live. He receives journalists and delights in humiliating them; the first four flee defeated. The fifth, Nina, has read all his work and will dismantle his cynicism and his imposture until she extracts a dark secret from him.
First novel by Amélie Nothomb, originally published in 1992; winner of the Alain-Fournier and René Fallet prizes in 1993.
Intended for a general and university audience, especially readers of contemporary French fiction and novels with a provocative tone.
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.
