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Cees Nooteboom
The great Dutch author and traveller Cees Nooteboom (author of Roads to Santiago and The Following Story) sheds new light on the city, its history and its treasures
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife.
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A collection of poems, selected by Nooteboom himself from more than a dozen Dutch books.
Cees Nooteboom is best known in the English-speaking world for his acclaimed novels, essays, and…
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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…
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In eight inimitable stories, Cees Nooteboom, one of the great modern novelists, meditates on love, loss and the shadow of death.
This absurdly enjoyable collection of travel pieces by one of the world’s most entertaining writers takes us from the exotic by way of Gambia, Mali and Isfahan, to the seemingly…
Gives us the author’s view of the world, using his penetrative observation to show us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of…
Roads to Santiago is an evocative travelogue through the sights, sounds, and smells of a little known Spain-its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. And as much as it…
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Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) is a writer of fiction, poetry and travel literature. Translated into at least thirty-four languages, his work raises important questions about the mobility of literary texts…
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A profound and searching novel from one of Europe’s major contemporary writers
Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel Project in Perth, where actors dressed as angels are concealed…
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533 days in the life of a great writer, reflecting on his immediate surroundings on the island of Menorca, on literature, global affairs and his place in the universe.
The fall of the Wall to the present day - Berlin’s turbulent history and path to reunification as witnessed by one of Europe’s most distinguished authors.
A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain’s history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain…
The essays in this hymn to Australia begin with the author’s visit to Broome in the northwest. Weaving the occasion of his arrival in this remote town with his exploration…
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…
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The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects on the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening
Valeria Luiselli
Cosmopolitan, vivacious essays in the tradition of Brodsky’s Watermark and Benjamin’s The Arcades Project by a celebrated young Mexican author.
First published as Venetiee: de leeuw, de stad en het water by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, in 2019 – title page verso.
Paul Geerts,Kengo Kuma
The most comprehensive monograph available on the internationally renowned Belgian floral artist and designer Daniel Ost.
A novel for those who seek to unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives… A wry, witty and insightful classic.
An elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer.
Cees Nooteboom,Max Neumann
Written in response to and published together with a series of drawings by the Berlin-based artist Max Neumann, the book draws on Nooteboom’s personal reflections–his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies…
Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk’s Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on the Spanish island of…
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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.
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Willem Frederik Hermans
A mesmerizing, dark meditation on the legacy of war. An interloper and opportunist makes a grand house his own in the chaos of a war-torn countryside, only to find himself…
Michael Augustin, Cees Nooteboom en Hannie Rouweler vertalers: Martin Mooij
Bilingual poetry book: German and Dutch. TWEETALIGE DICHTBUNDEL: Duits en Nederlands. Gedichten van Michael Augustin in vertaling. Gedichte von Michael Augustin (Bremen) in Ubersetzung. Drie vertalers: Martin Mooij, Cees Nooteboom…
Two 17th-century masters in dialogue and in context
This volume presents the best work of two 17th-century master painters from the Netherlands and Spain, pairing paintings by each while also…
Creative takes on domesticity and cooking from the constraints of lockdown
As the coronavirus forced the world to close down, nearly everyone found themselves spending a lot more time at…
