AMÉLIE NOTHOMB HYGIENE AND THE ASSASSIN
"Nothomb finds everything fascinating, and she takes us along an electric current of perception." -JOHN TIMPANE, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"One must be terribly mature (or terribly innocent) to write, at the age of twenty-five, a novel blessed with such brilliant dialogue, one that is free of dead spots, blunders, and commonplaces, and which moves inexorably toward its astonishing finale." -Le nouvel observateur
"The reader will feel that Prétextat Tach actually exists. She will feel that she knows him.
And she will fall hopelessly in love with the interviewer, Nina." -Le Monde