Stupeur et tremblements
About this book
"According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor were to adopt a tone of fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amelie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine in this new novel by Amelie Nothomb, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amelie; working there turns into a comic nightmare.".
"Poor Amelie can do nothing right. She starts at the bottom of the corporate ladder and immediately reveals a genius for working her way down. She delivers mail, serves tea, updates calendars, photocopies the same pages a thousand times; her job description, fluid at best, runs relentlessly downstream. But of Amelie's many failings and ill-advised breaches of protocol, the worst by far is becoming infatuated with her immediate superior, the beautiful, impeccable, and implacable Miss Mori."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- alien labor
- ausgabe
- belgierin
- belletristische darstellung
- deutsch
- fiction
- fiction - general
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, urban & street lit
- foreign visitors
- foreign workers
- franzosisch
- frauenfeindlichkeit
- french fiction
- general
- hierarchie
- japanese corporations
- japan, fiction
- konzern
- literatura de expressão francesa
- novel
- roman
- romance literature
- social life and customs
- unternehmen
- young women
- young women, fiction