The Character of Rain
A Novel
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or lord child. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first tow and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state.I remember everything that happened to me after the age of two and one-half, the narrator tells us. She means this literally. Once jolted out of her plant-like , tube-like trance (to the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4299-7896-5
- EAN: 9781429978965
- Produktnummer: 22464889
- Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 149 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
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Amelie Nothomb
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