'Fear and Trembling' tells the story of a young woman who spends a year working at a Japanese firm. She soon learns that at the Yumimoto Corporation hierarchy means everything, and her time there soon turns into a comic nightmare of terror and self-abasement.

Recounting the formative journeys of her youth, from Tokyo to Peking to Paris to New York, the author presents an examination of the self.

The extraordinary and tragic story of a brilliant young dancer at the mercy of her jealous aunt, from a phenomenally successful French writer. Amelie Nothomb (the model for the film Amelie) is one of France's most celebrated and controversial authors.