by Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb is one of my favorite writers: young, with that unique laconic style to describe the most horrible things. She is Belgium who grew up in Japan and China. This book is about the life of a wunderkind which is somehow everywhere solitary due to her weirdness. In short sentences the book starts that he mother killed the father of her before she was born. The reason is that her mother felt that she must save her unborn daughter from the average father. It is not the last murder in this book. But all of them look very logical from the perspective of the murderers.
Facts:
English title: The book of proper names
Original title: Robert des noms propres
Published: 2002
