The Character of Rain
by Amélie Nothomb
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"The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children, whether Japanese or not, are gods, each one an okosama, or "lord child." On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of the human race. In Amelie Nothomb's new novel, The Character of Rain, we learn that divinity is a difficult thing from which to recover, particularly if, like the child in this story, you have spent the first two and a half years of life in a nearly vegetative state."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Character of Rain
November 4, 2004, Faber and Faber
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The Character of Rain: A Novel
April 23, 2003, St. Martin's Griffin
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0312302487 9780312302481
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The character of rain: a novel
2002, St. Martin's Press
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"IN THE BEGINNING was nothing, and this nothing had neither form nor substance-it was nothing other than what it was."
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