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Tokyo fiancée / Amélie Nothomb ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

by Nothomb, Amélie.

Europa Editions, 2009.

Belgians -- Japan -- Fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Language teachers -- Japan -- Fiction.

Culture conflict -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

9781933372648 (trade pbk.)

1933372648 (trade pbk.)

152 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of: Ni d'Eve ni d'Adam.

Acclaimed Belgian author Amelie Nothomb reminisces in this novel about her life in Japan in 1989. She was twenty-one that year, a recent college graduate seeking her emotional roots, and she had just returned to Japan, where she was born and lived with her diplomat parents for the first five years of her life. To earn some money while she studies business, she posts an advertisement offering language classes in French. She is immediately hired by Rinri, a twenty-year-old college student whose French is at the beginner level, despite several years of teaching by Japanese teachers. Before long, their teacher-student relationship becomes more intimate, and Amelie is learning more about Japanese culture than she ever expected.

Autobiographical fiction.

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