Nepodrazhaemaya Ameli Notomb proslavilas blistatelnymi korotkimi romanami, kotorye ona vypuskaet ezhegodno vot uzhe bolshe tridtsati let. Perevedennye v soroka stranah ot SSHA do YAponii, oni prinesli ey mnozhestvo prestizhnyh premiy, v tom chisle Gran-pri Frantsuzskoy akademii i odnu iz glavnyh literaturnyh nagrad Evropy - premiyu Strega. V etu knigu vklyucheny dva ee romana, i oba oni o lyubvi."ZHazhda" - istoriya raspyatiya i voskreseniya Iisusa Hrista, rasskazannaya ot ego imeni. V poslednie chasy on vspominaet schastlivye dni s Mariey Magdalinoy, dumaet ob Ottse, o stradaniyah i radostyah tela i, glavnoe, o lyubvi. Ameli Notomb nazyvaet "ZHazhdu" knigoy svoey zhizni, a Hrista - svoim absolyutnym geroem.Roman voshel v short-list Gonkurovskoy premii, a avtoritetnyy zhurnal Lire vklyuchil ego v spisok "100 luchshih knig goda"."Kniga sester" - roman s "syurprizami", kakie obychno pryachet v svoih knigah Ameli Notomb. Tristana s samogo rozhdeniya rastet v emotsionalnom vakuume, poka ne poyavlyaetsya na svet ee sestra. Roditeli, bez pamyati vlyublennye drug v druga, ne vpuskayut v svoyu lyubov-krepost nikogo, dazhe sobstvennyh detey. Vzrosleya i stanovyas zhenschinoy, Tristana vynuzhdena preodolevat travmu, poluchennuyu v rannem detstve.
