First Blood
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A moving fictionalized account of Nothombs own father, who died of Covid related symptoms in early 2020, this is the acclaimed authors most personal and heartfelt novel.
The Republic of the Congo, 1964. A young man faces a firing squad, preparing for his last moment on Earth. He is known as a complex and complicated man whose childhood left him hungry for affection and attention and who transformed his emotional wounds into a brilliant career as a diplomat and a negotiator. Now he finds himself negotiating for his own life, together with the lives of 1,500 Congolese citizens.
Inspired by the life of her father and by her lifelong effort to understand him, Amlie Nothombs new novel is about life-and-death decisions, about reckoning with ones past, reconciling with ones parents, and about the hard, often humorous work of determining ones own path.
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