--- status: Read date_finished: title: Fear and Trembling subtitle: A Novel description: Alternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Amélie Nothomb's Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up in the throes of fear, trembling, and, ultimately, delight. According to ancient Japanese protocol, foreigners deigning to approach the emperor did so only with fear and trembling. Terror and self-abasement conveyed respect. Amélie, our well-intentioned and eager young Western heroine, goes to Japan to spend a year working at the Yumimoto Corporation. Returning to the land where she was born is the fulfillment of a dream for Amélie; working there turns into comic nightmare. categories: - Fiction authors: - [[Amélie Nothomb]] published_on: 2007-04-01 publisher: Macmillan + ORM pages: 84 isbn: 1429978996 cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=VEdfEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Fear and Trembling (book).jpg link: https://amzn.to/43MqxqC tags: - type/book - books - summaries - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2025-06-05T10:08 updated: 2026-04-01T14:45 public_note: true rating: ★★★★★ --- # Fear and Trembling (book) - Author(s): [[Amélie Nothomb]] - Link: https://amzn.to/43MqxqC ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Fear and Trembling (book).jpg|200]] ## Description ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Fear and Trembling (book)]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Key ideas ... ## Chapter 1: ... ... ## References -