Strike Your Heart

by Amelie Nothomb
Strike Your Heart
  • ISBN-13: 9781609454852
  • Author(s): Amelie Nothomb
  • Translated by: Alison Anderson
  • Subject: Fiction in translation
  • Publisher: Europa Editions
  • Imprint: Europa Editions
  • Publication Date: 13-09-2018
  • Format: p/b

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Marie is the prettiest girl in her hometown and is dating the most popular boy. The envy of all her schoolmates, when she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change. Diana steals the hearts of all who meet her, inciting nothing but jealousy in her mother. This is Diana's story. The story of a young, brilliant woman who grows up without maternal affection and of Diana's relationships with the other women in her life: her best friend; her mentor; her sister. It is a story about the baser sentiments that often animate human relations: rivalry, jealousy, distrust.
About the book

Marie is the prettiest girl in her hometown and is dating the most popular boy. The envy of all her schoolmates, when she falls pregnant and gives birth to Diana, things change. Diana steals the hearts of all who meet her, inciting nothing but jealousy in her mother. This is Diana's story. The story of a young, brilliant woman who grows up without maternal affection and of Diana's relationships with the other women in her life: her best friend; her mentor; her sister. It is a story about the baser sentiments that often animate human relations: rivalry, jealousy, distrust.