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533 - A Book of Days by Cees Nooteboom; Laura Watkinson (Translator)
Category: Travel
533 days in the life of a great European writer."The very first pages are so powerful that you suspect the author must have binned the preceding pages that were needed to climb to such heights" De VolkskrantThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also ...Show more
A Dark Premonition: Journeys to Heironymous Bosch by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Art and Design
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 1516) is the most enigmatic artist of Early Modern Age. Inventing monstrous creatures, grotesque ogres, and bizarre chimeras walking abroad between this world and netherworld, he visualized the vices and desires of mankind, the promises of paradise, and the horrors of hell like ...Show more
In the Dutch Mountains by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Fiction
A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous Alpine ranges in the south. Kai and Lucia are circus illusionists, and when Kai is kidnapped, Lucia must re ...Show more
Leaving - A Poem from the Time of the Virus by Cees Nooteboom; Max Neumann (Illustrator); David Colmer (Translator)
Category: Poetry
An exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europe's greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times: the coronavirus pandemic.One of the leading living European writers, Cees Nooteboom never shies away from contemporary issues. His latest collection of poems, Leaving, begin ...Show more
Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Biography
The Roman emperor Caligula famously called off an invasion of Britain and instead ordered his legions into the surf to attack the god of the sea. Cees Nooteboom is more civil. As autumn falls each year he writes Poseidon a letter requesting permission to return to his home in Minorca the following sprin ...Show more
Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Biography
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his P ...Show more
Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Fiction
Alma and Almut share a fascination for Australia and its ancient peoples; their ceremonies, sand drawings and body paintings. After Alma suffers a traumatic attack, they board a cheap flight from Sao Paulo to Sydney, and together begin their journey across their secret continent.
MOKUSEI A LOVE STORY by NOOTEBOOM CEES & DIXON ADRIENNE (TRANS)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people--with its exoticism--and see Japan as it truly is? The Belgian has an idea: he helps the photogr ...Show more