Pipe Metaphysics tells the story of the first three years of life of a being obsessed with water that, dissatisfied with its environment, adopts the inert form of a pipe as its existential condition. With the cruelty, realism and peculiar humour which we are used to, Amlie Nothomb recalls, through a story that combines philosophy and plumbing, episodes of her Japanese infancy that took place in Osaka.
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Pipe Metaphysics tells the story of the first three years of life of a being obsessed with water that, dissatisfied with its environment, adopts the inert form of a pipe as its existential condition. With the cruelty, realism and peculiar humour which we are used to, Amlie Nothomb recalls, through a story that combines philosophy and plumbing, episodes of her Japanese infancy that took place in Osaka.
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