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Cees Nooteboom
Works by Cees Nooteboom
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Ina Rilke
Original title: Het volgende verhaal
The narrator of The Following Story is uncertain at the outset of this short novel what is happening to him, and so is the reader. By the end there are only two plausible explanations: the narrator is dreaming, or he is passing from the land of the living to that of the dead. (more...) |
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Rituelen
Despite the fact that his first two novels gained literary awards, Nooteboom was better known as a travel writer until the publication of Rituals in 1980. That gained him not only yet another Dutch literary prize but also the American Pegasus Prize and, through translation, a wider audience. (more...) |
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: In Nederland
Tiburón, a Spanish inspector of roads who writes in his spare time, sets out to tell the story of Kai and Lucia, a perfect couple who are forced to seek work as illusionists in the fictitious mountainous Southern Netherlands. (more...) |
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: De ridder is gestorven
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Mokusei! Een liefdesverhaal
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Filip en de anderen
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by Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
Original title: Een lied van schijn en wezen
If you like the stylistic charm, the ironic play with paradox and the lightness of touch of writers like Italo Calvino or Jorge Luis Borges, then you’ll like Nooteboom’s Song of Truth and Semblance. It is a slight but utterly enchanting tale that interweaves fiction and reality, (more...) |
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