Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb Historical Fiction as the Iníons call it

as the Iníons call it

Erich Maria Remarque's classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants' physical and mental trauma

and while you can easily imagine them in the here and now

haunted by the places and people they left behind

Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale

Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb Historical Fiction as the Iníons call itAmlie, a well intentioned and eager young westerner, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfilment of a dream for Amlie, but once there her working life quickly becomes a comic nightmare of terror and self abasement. Disturbing, hilarious and totally convincing, Fear and Trembling displays an elegant and shrewd understanding of the intricate ways in which Japanese