Amélie Nothomb

Food is in short supply and the cold is unbearable. In a tantalizing ménage à trois between a professor, his assistant, and a student, only the books bear witness to their plight.Amélie Nothomb is the award-winning author of 13 novels, including Hygiène de l’assassin; Stupeur et tremblements, winner of the Grand Prix …

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

In a wistful, clever and unusual novel, Amelie Nothomb casts herself as hunger: hunger for experience, hunger for life, hunger for sweetness and, in what is the book's nucleus, hunger for hunger (the period during which she was afflicted by acute anorexia). Recounting the formative journeys of her youth, from Tokyo to …