by Amélie Nothomb · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789725301128
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«Metafísica dos tubos» is the novel by Amélie Nothomb, published by Editorial Bizâncio in hardback (134 pages, in Portuguese).
The author recreates the first three years of a French girl in Japan: during the first two she leads an almost vegetative existence, motionless and mute, which the narrator calls «tubo». From there, the work combines interior monologues and comic-philosophical reflections on childhood, language, identity and divinity.
Original work: «Métaphysique des tubes» (2000); Portuguese translation by Fernanda Barão. San Clemente Prize 2003.
For readers of contemporary fiction and French fiction who appreciate philosophical humour and coming-of-age stories.
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.
