This book is brilliantly disturbing. What starts as a childish challenge to prove a classmate wrong becomes something much darker and makes you wonder what it is that you would have to give up to "the pile of meaning". Brilliantly translated from the original danish work, this book mediates on nothing, and how to disprove it.
4) Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb
Recounting the Belgian's author's experiences working for a Japanese company, this whimsical book beautifully captures the difference between the two cultures, and Amélie's awkward blunders are rather endearing to the reader, if not to her superiors. Also available in English under the slightly less inspiring title "Fear and Trembling", I thoroughly recommend this book for a fun, light read.
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