The Book of Proper Names: A Novel by Amélie Nothomb
The Book of Proper Names: A Novel

Amélie Nothomb

The Book of Proper Names: A Novel

Amélie Nothomb

122 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction contemporary reflective medium-paced
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The Book of Proper Names is set in contemporary Paris, its main character an orphan named Plectrude. Before the child's birth her nineteen-year-old mother shoots and kills her nineteen-year-old (and somewhat feckless) father because she hates the ...

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