by Amélie Nothomb · France Loisirs · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782298042375
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«Une forme de vie» is the novel by Amélie Nothomb, published by France Loisirs in paperback (127 pages, in French).
The correspondence between Amélie Nothomb and an American soldier stationed in Iraq shapes this novel. Melvin Mapple confesses his despair to her and turns food into his drug and his weapon, until reaching an extreme weight. A strange bond develops between them, in a story about loneliness, the failure to communicate, and the search for meaning.
Originally published in 2010, this France Loisirs edition appeared in 2011.
For readers of contemporary fiction in French and followers of Amélie Nothomb's narrative.
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.
