Amélie Nothomb

So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted in Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world of the concrete ghetto of …

Mercure (Nothomb) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 1998.