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Viaje de invierno
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2026
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About the author
Amélie Nothomb
109 books6,064 followersAmélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française; the Prix René-Fallet; and twice the Prix Alain-Fournier.
While in Japan, she attended a local school and learned Japanese. When she was five the family moved to China. "Quitter le Japon fut pour moi un arrachement" ("Leaving Japan was a wrenching separation for me") she writes in Fear and Trembling. Nothomb moved often, and did not live in Europe until she was 17, when she moved to Brussels. There, she reportedly felt as much a stranger as everywhere else. She studied philology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. After some family tensions, she returned to Japan to work in a big Japanese company in Tokyo. Her experience of this time is told in Fear and Trembling. She has written a romanticized biography (Robert des noms propres) for the French female singer RoBERT in 2002 and during the period 2000-2002 she wrote the lyrics for nine tracks of the same artist. Many ideas inserted in her books come from the conversations she had with an Italian man, from late eighties and during the nineties. She used the French Minitel, while he used the Italian Videotel system, connected with the French one. They never met personally.
Source: Wikipedia
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).
She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française; the Prix René-Fallet; and twice the Prix Alain-Fournier.
While in Japan, she attended a local school and learned Japanese. When she was five the family moved to China. "Quitter le Japon fut pour moi un arrachement" ("Leaving Japan was a wrenching separation for me") she writes in Fear and Trembling. Nothomb moved often, and did not live in Europe until she was 17, when she moved to Brussels. There, she reportedly felt as much a stranger as everywhere else. She studied philology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. After some family tensions, she returned to Japan to work in a big Japanese company in Tokyo. Her experience of this time is told in Fear and Trembling. She has written a romanticized biography (Robert des noms propres) for the French female singer RoBERT in 2002 and during the period 2000-2002 she wrote the lyrics for nine tracks of the same artist. Many ideas inserted in her books come from the conversations she had with an Italian man, from late eighties and during the nineties. She used the French Minitel, while he used the Italian Videotel system, connected with the French one. They never met personally.
Source: Wikipedia
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January 24, 2026
Me encanta Nothomb, pero este libro me ha parecido una porquería 🤣
January 25, 2026
Pasa algo con Nothomb. Cuánto más la lees más entiendes su visión y sus obsesiones. Me resulta verdaderamente divertido poder anotar los patrones que se repiten: asesino en un aeropuerto (cosmética del enemigo), anorexia y hambre voraz (biografía del hambre), escritora con deficiencias cognitivas y obesidad mórbida (higiene del asesino). Así un largo etc…
Aunque la novela la edite ahora anagrama es de 2009, traductor de siempre (gran acierto) pero gran error no poner una imagen de la autora en la cubierta como es costumbre. Más aún cuando en el propio texto juegan con la idea. En fin más Nothomb por favor.
Aunque la novela la edite ahora anagrama es de 2009, traductor de siempre (gran acierto) pero gran error no poner una imagen de la autora en la cubierta como es costumbre. Más aún cuando en el propio texto juegan con la idea. En fin más Nothomb por favor.
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January 16, 2026
" - Es tan hermoso - susurró ella.
-¿Por qué hablas en voz baja?
- Porque es tan hermoso que a la fuerza tiene que ser un secreto.
Me reí: entendía lo que quería decir. "
" Experimentar el amor ya supone un triunfo, tanto que podríamos llegar a preguntarnos por qué queremos más. "
-¿Por qué hablas en voz baja?
- Porque es tan hermoso que a la fuerza tiene que ser un secreto.
Me reí: entendía lo que quería decir. "
" Experimentar el amor ya supone un triunfo, tanto que podríamos llegar a preguntarnos por qué queremos más. "
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