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Wikipedia article




'Loving Sabotage' is a Belgian novel by Amlie Nothomb. It was first published in 1993 by the Albin Michel.

Plot



The narrator of 'Loving Sabotage' is a five year old girl who arrives in Beijing in 1972 as the daughter of a Belgian diplomat. She joins the other children in the diplomatic enclave, engaged in various nasty wars. She owns a bicycle, which she has convinced herself is a horse. She falls madly in love with a six year old Italian girl and attempts to gain the affections of cruel Elena. Based in part by Nothomb's own childhood experience in Beijing, the novel includes observations of China under the Gang of Four and on the way Westerners perceived China.[http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol2/issue2/nothomb.htm Complete review Volume II, Issue 2, May 2001 Love in the Middle Kingdom by M.A.Orthofer][https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/26/featuresreviews.guardianreview23 The Guardian, Isobel Montgomery and Anna Scott on Loving Sabotage Nov.26 2005][http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8112-1459-9 Publishers Weekly][http://www.ralphmag.org/AG/new.html Ralphmag.org][http://dannyreviews.com/h/Loving_Sabotage.html dannyreviews]

References



Category:Fiction set in the 1970s

Category:1993 novels

Category:French-language novels

Category:Novels by Amlie Nothomb

Category:Novels set in Beijing

Category:ditions Albin Michel books


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