Amélie Nothomb

"Why must pleasure always have a price? And why must one always pay for sensual delight with the loss of original lightness?" Amélie is a young language teacher living in Tokyo. When she succumbs to the attentions of her one and only student-the shy, wealthy, and oh-so-Japanese Rinri-the lovers-to-be find themselves swept along by an affair that is as unusual as it is tender. This is a new kind of love story that pits a woman's desire for companionship...

Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial hometown and is dating the most popular boy in town. She is the envy of all her schoolmates and she loves it. When she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change. Diana steals the hearts of all who meet her, inciting nothing but jealousy in her mother. This is Diana's story. The story of a young, brilliant woman who grows up without maternal affection. It is the story of Diana's relationships...

Quelques heures avant sa crucifixion, Jésus-Christ livre ses réflexions sur sa nature humaine et incarnée.

The novel is a form of a biography drawing at times towards the tale of the author's father, Patrick Nothomb, during the first twenty-eight years of his life, from his birth until the Stanleyville hostage-taking in 1964, s as part of the unfolding of the Congolese crisis of 1960-1965.

"Deux sœurs, nées de parents unis par un amour exclusif, vivent également un amour absolu si près et en même temps si loin de leurs géniteurs distraits. Une bible de sentiments, un hommage à l'amour et aux amours, une méditation sur le temps qui passe et la rédemption par la parole et par les mots."--Leslibraires.ca.

A retired French couple move into an idyllic house, only to have the idyll ruined by long, daily visits from a boring doctor who is their neighbor. Eventually they throw him out and the man attempts suicide to make them feel guilty. A comedy of manners.