by Amélie Nothomb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433901712
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«Primera sangre» is the novel by Amélie Nothomb published by Anagrama in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
The action begins in 1964, when Patrick Nothomb, a young Belgian consul in Stanleyville, is kidnapped along with other Westerners and placed before a firing squad. From that extreme scene, the author reconstructs her father's life, giving him a first-person voice: his childhood marked by the death of his military father, his distant mother, a poet and tyrant grandfather, the hardships of the Second World War and his diplomatic vocation. It all leads to the moment when he had to look death in the face.
The author's thirtieth novel, winner of the Prix Renaudot in 2021 and the Strega European Prize in 2022. The book belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection. Translation by Sergi Pàmies.
For readers of biographical fiction and contemporary French literature seeking an intense and humorous family reconstruction.
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.
