Somewhere around 2001 or 2002 I read an article about the German edition of "Stupeur et tremblements" by Amelie Nothomb. The novel tells the tragic-comic adventures of a young Belgian woman working in a Japanese company for a year - seems to me it's an autobiographical chapter of Nothombs own life, though so far I haven't seen an official ( Read more... )

I'll do a couple of scans from magazines and paper clippings about MCML and Mr Sakamoto I've collected. Most are in German and some even in French or Italien but we can still look at the pretty pictures, right? ;) I'll make summaries of the reviews that are in German because some really point interesting fact out while some I do not necessarily ( Read more... )