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Fear and trembling / Amélie Nothomb ; translated by Adriana Hunter.

by Nothomb, Amélie.

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St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Foreign workers -- Fiction.

Humiliation -- Fiction.

Japan -- Fiction.

Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

9780312288570 (St Martin's Griffin softcover)

Stupeur et tremblements. English English.

132 p. ; 20 cm.

"First published in France under the title "Stupeur et treblements" by Editions Albin Michel S.A."--T.p. verso.

Translated from the French.

A stunningly funny novel about the gap between East and West, and the story of a young woman who falls straight into it. Fear and Trembling tells the story of Amelie, a young Western woman who spends a year working at a Japanese corporation. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything. Keep to your place and you survive; break ranks and you will be broken. The determined but hapless Amelie makes mistake after mistake, not least of which is deigning to sympathize with her immediate superior, the beautiful, efficient, and ice-cold Miss Mori. A perverse process of ritual humiliation follows. But even as Amelie's life at the Yumimoto Corporation spirals inexorably and hilariously downward, what she learns about herself and her colleagues in this brilliant novel will alternately delight and outrage readers.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Humorous fiction.

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