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The Life of Hunger

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Original title
  
Biographie de la faim

Media type
  
print

Originally published
  
August 2004

Genre
  
Preceded by
  
Antichrista

Publication date
  
2004

Followed by
  
Sulphuric Acid

Author
  
Country
  
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Language
  
English translated from French language

Nominations
  
Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, Goncourt List, Poland's Choice

Similar
  
Amélie Nothomb books, Novels

The Life of Hunger (French: Biographie de la faim) is a novel by Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 2004.

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"The inhabitants of Vanuatu have never been hungry." They don't know the feelings that hunger causes as everything is within their reach. As a result, they become idle. Amélie exists in a permanent state of starvation. She tries by any means to overcome the emptiness which defines her (see The Character of Rain). She intoxicates herself by observing the World's beauty; the hills beyond her Japanese garden, her sister's beauty, the gentleness of her nanny's hugs, the drunken rush from races, or an internal journey into emptiness. Or simply by filling up with water: Potomania. Amélie is obsessed by hunger. It dominates her life. Can she resist this servitude or will anorexia be her downfall?

References

The Life of Hunger Wikipedia


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