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Nothomb, Amelie
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Fiction
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St. Martin's Press
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en-US
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_The Book of Proper Names_ is set in contemporary Paris, its main character an orphan named Plectrude. Before the child's birth her nineteen-year-old mother shoots and kills her nineteen-year-old (and somewhat feckless) father because she hates the names he's devised for their child--she fears they