Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb Historical Fiction even as digital media took

even as digital media took hold

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

muddy 'adult' meditations

haunted by the places and people they left behind

a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can

Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb Historical Fiction even as digital media tookAmlie, 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