Books by Cees Nooteboom (3)


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All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom EN

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Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. This title follows Arthur as he wonders the streets of Berlin, a city which provides the backdrop for a self-funded film that will show the world through his eyes.
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Rituals : A Novel by Cees Nooteboom EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
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In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned lends him the curiousity, and impartiality, to survey others' lives and rountines. Inni's opposite, the one-eyed downhill skier Arnold Taads measures his life by the clock, while his disowned son Philip follows Japanese rituals which themselves seem to render his existence meaningless. A novel for those who seek to unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives...
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The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom EN

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A writer of travel books, Herman Mussert, goes to bed one night in Amsterdam and wakes up in a Lisbon hotel in the very room where 20 years earlier he slept with another man's wife. Is he dead, or dreaming, or travelling backwards through time? A surrealistic tale by the author of The Knight Has Died.