The novels “Biography of Hunger” and “Love Sabotage” are autobiographical, if you believe the author-character, the author-werewolf, who plays with the reader like a cat with a mouse. In “Love Sabotage” we see totalitarian China during the “gang of four” times, where Amelie lived with her father, a major Belgian diplomat. In “The Biography of Hunger,” countries flash by as if on a movie screen: Japan, the USA, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, Belgium, and China again. Amelie here is first a little girl, then a teenager, with all the “girlish” experiences, love, grievances and passion for exotic things, people and languages. The political map of the 70-80s appears before the reader in full view, brightly colored and funny drawn in the key of a masterfully modeled - but seemingly not childish at all - perception of the unpredictable Amelie.