Loving Sabotage () is a Belgian novel by Amélie Nothomb. It was first published in 1993 by the Albin Michel.
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.Complete review Volume II, Issue 2, May 2001 “Love in the Middle Kingdom” by M.A.OrthoferThe Guardian, Isobel Montgomery and Anna Scott on Loving Sabotage Nov.26 2005Publishers Weekly
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