{"product_id":"loving-sabotage","title":"Loving Sabotage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I lived everything during these three years: heroism, glory, treachery, love, indifference, suffering, humiliation. It was China, I was seven years old.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo announces the narrator of \u003ci\u003eLoving Sabotage\u003c\/i\u003e, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted to Peking in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world on her 'horse' (bicycle) with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. 'From puberty onwards', she announces at one point, 'life is just an epilogue'. There, on the asphalt-playground-battlefield, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her very own coldly indifferent 'Helen of Troy'. But she also learns life's hardest rule: that if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return. Poignant, provocative - and often hilarious - \u003ci\u003eLoving Sabotage\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258436735320,"sku":"9780571226634","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571226634_971aef48-330f-41e3-b82a-494a49267f95.jpg?v=1764600330","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/loving-sabotage","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}