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Amelie Nothomb
ISBN: 9780571220496
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
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In 'The Character of Rain', we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state.
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one a 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of humanity. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals that the move from deity to ordinary member of the human race can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover.
| ISBN | 0571220495 | | DEWEY | 843.914 | | ISBN13 | 9780571220496
(What's this?) | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Publisher | Faber and Faber | | Pages | 144 | | Imprint | Faber and Faber | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Publication date | 04 Nov 2004 | | Academic level | General | | Library of Congress | PQ2674.O77 | |
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"'French literary lioness Nothomb imagines the inner life of her first two years of childhood, richly depicting this wondrous secret universe.' Elle; 'Potently distills from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory.' New York Times"  Be the first to write a customer review
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