Loving Sabotage

Loving Sabotage (French: Le Sabotage amoureux) is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 1993 by the Albin Michel.^{[citation needed]}

Loving Sabotage

Author	Amélie Nothomb
Original title	Le Sabotage amoureux
Translator	Andrew Wilson
Language	English translated from French
Genre	Novel
Publication date	1993
Publication place	France
Media type	print
Preceded by	Hygiene and the Assassin
Followed by	Human Rites

Plot

The narrator of Loving Sabotage is a five-year-old girl who arrives in Beijing in 1972 as the daughter of a Belgian diplomat. She joins the other children in the diplomatic enclave, engaged in various nasty wars. She owns a bicycle, which she has convinced herself is a horse. She falls madly in love with a six-year-old Italian girl and attempts to gain the affections of cruel Elena. Based in part by Nothomb's own childhood experience in Beijing, the novel includes observations of China under the Gang of Four and on the way Westerners perceived China.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}