The Life of Hunger (French: Biographie de la faim) is a novel by Belgian author Amélie Nothomb.

Amélie exists in a permanent state of starvation.

She tries by any means to overcome the emptiness which defines her (see The Character of Rain).

She intoxicates herself by observing the World's beauty; the hills beyond her Japanese garden, her sister's beauty, the gentleness of her nanny's hugs, the drunken rush from races, or an internal journey into emptiness.

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