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Original title
  
Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam

Language
  
French

Pages
  
238

Originally published
  
20 August 2007

Page count
  
238

Adaptations
  
Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

Translator
  
Alison Anderson

Publication date
  
2007

ISBN
  
978-2-226-17964-7

Author
  
Amélie Nothomb

Genre
  
Novel

Country
  
Belgium

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Amélie Nothomb books, Novels

Tokyo Fiancée (French: Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam "Neither Eve nor Adam") is a novel by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. It appeared on 20 August 2007 published by Éditions Albin Michel. A film adaptation was released in 2014.

Contents

Plot

An autobiographical novel, Tokyo Fiancée describes a romance that a 21-year-old Belgian woman Amélie had with a young Japanese man in Tokyo, when she was tutoring him in French language. The novel is partially concurrent with Nothomb's earlier novel, Fear and Trembling.

Awards

The novel was nominated for the Prix Goncourt in 2007 and the Prix Renaudot 2007. It won Prix de Flore in 2007.

References

Tokyo Fiancée Wikipedia