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Hygiene and the Assassin by Amélie Nothomb, which was first published in 1992 to widespread critical acclaim. It tells the story of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Prétextat Tach, who finally decides to grant a number of interviews after learning that he has just months left to live. After driving the first four journalists out with his relentless misanthropy and acerbic tongue, he seems to have met his match in his final interviewer, a strong-willed young woman who has managed to dig up a terrible secret from his past… Amélie Nothomb is a prolific and award-winning Belgium author, with over 20 novels to her name so far. Her work has been translated into numerous languages, and she is one of the most widely read French-language authors active today.



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