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Roads to Santiago

By: Cees Nooteboom

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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 is the story of his travels, it is an elegant and detailed chronicle of Cees Nooteboom's thirty-five-year love affair with his adopted second country. He presents a world not visible to the casual tourist, by invoking the great spirits of Spain's past-El Cid, Cervantes, Alfonso the Chaste and Alfonso the Wise, the ill-fated Hapsburgs, and Velázquez. Be it a discussion of his trip to the magnificent Prado Museum or his visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, Nooteboom writes with the depth and intelligence of an historian, the bravado of an adventurer, and the passion of a poet. Reminiscent of Robert Hughes's Barcelona, Roads to Santiago is the consummate portrait of Spain for all readers.

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0156011581

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All Souls' Day

By: Cees Nooteboom

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All Souls' Day

By: Cees Nooteboom

font size ="+2""An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre" Times Literary Supplement Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wanders the streets of Berlin, a city whose recent past provides the perfect backdrop for his reflections on life and the universe as he collects images for his latest project - a film that will show the world through his eyes. With his circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Daane discusses everything from history to metaphysics and the meaning of our contemporary existence, often over a hearty meal. Then, one cold winter's day, Daane meets the history student Elik Oranje and his world is turned upside down. And when she unexpectedly leaves the city for Spain, Daane is compelled to follow. All Souls' Day is an elegiac love story, a poignant and affecting tale in which the city of Berlin plays a prominent role, by one of Europe's major contemporary writers. Translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty "Displays with admirable lucidity the workings of a humane, civilized, and consistently interesting mind" Kirkus Reviews "One of the most remarkable writers of our time" ALBERTO MANGUEL

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MacLehose Press

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1529421780

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Roads to Berlin

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Roads to Berlin

By: Cees Nooteboom

The winner of numerous literary awards including the Anne Frank Prize and Goethe Prize, Cees Nooteboom, novelist, poet and journalist, "is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent." (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books) In Roads to Berlin, Nooteboom's reportage, "from a 1963 Khrushchev rally in East Berlin to the tearing down of the Palast der Republik, brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its â??associated layers of memory,'" The Economist said. The book maps the changing landscape of post-World-War-II Germany, from the period before the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nooteboom's writings on politics, people, architecture, and culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine and Goethe, steeped in Romanticism and mythology, and to Germany's baroque cities. With an outsider's objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day. From the Hardcover edition.

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MacLehose Press

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1623650984

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Rituals

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Rituals

By: Cees Nooteboom

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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Hachette UK

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1848662289

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Lost Paradise

A Novel

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Lost Paradise

A Novel

By: Cees Nooteboom

From “one of the greatest modern novelists” comes a haunting tale of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt). In Lost Paradise, Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young lady who leaves her parents’ São Paulo home on a hot summer night in a fit of depression. Her car engine dies in one of the city’s most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds her, and she is pulled from the automobile. To escape her memory of the assault, she flees across the world, to Australia, where she becomes involved in the beautiful but bizarre Angel Project. Not long after, Dutch literary critic Erik Zontag is in Perth, Australia, for a conference. He has found a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house. He reaches out, and for a second allows his fingertips to brush her feathers—and then she speaks. The intersection of their paths illuminates the extraordinary coincidences that propel our lives. “Dreamy and self-conscious . . . [Nooteboom] brazenly explores notions of reinvention, healing, loss, and the divine.” —Tom Barbash, The New York Times Book Review

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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1555848710

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9781555848712

The Foxes Come at Night

By: Cees Nooteboom

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The Foxes Come at Night

By: Cees Nooteboom

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of.

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1623655692

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In the Dutch Mountains

By: Cees Nooteboom

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In the Dutch Mountains

By: Cees Nooteboom

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 rescue him from the Snow Queen's palace. In the Dutch Mountains is an elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer.

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1848662270

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Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space

By: Cees Nooteboom

Since making his first voyage as a sailor-to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America -- Cees Nooteboom has been captivated by foreign countries and cultures and has never stopped travelling. This collection of his most enjoyable travel pieces ranges far and wide, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humour. From exotic locales such as Isfahan, the Gambia and Mali to more familiar places such as Australia and Zurich, Nooteboom reveals the world as he lives it, showing us the strangeness in places we thought we knew and the familiarity of places most of us will never visit. His phenomenal gifts as an observer and travel the wealth of his reading and learning make him a delightful companion. Nomad's Hotel features an introduction from fellow world-class traveller and writer extraordinaire Alberto Manguel.

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155365322X

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Roads to Santiago

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Roads to Santiago

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Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space

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In a collection of essays and travelogues, the author of Roads to Santiago recounts his journeys around the world, sharing his keen observations and reflections on people and places both conventional and exotic.

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0156035359

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Berliner Notizen

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Berliner Notizen

By: Cees Nooteboom

Was auf den Raisen Cees Nootebooms geschieht und was er notierend festhält, ist : Blick in die Welt, auf Geschichten, Bilder und Natur, auf Menschen : sie finden im Kosmos eines einzigartigen Beobachters Platz.

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3518398873

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The Foxes Come at Night

By: Cees Nooteboom

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The Foxes Come at Night

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Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come At Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. In 'Paula', the narrator evokes the mysterious, brief life of a woman he once loved; in 'Paula II', the same woman is aware of the man thinking of her. No longer a body, she is slowly fading into the distance, remembering the time they spent together, and his fear of the black night when the foxes appear. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of. Nooteboom is a superb stylist who observes the world with a combination of melancholy and astonishment. These stories are textured with humour, pathos and vast knowledge, the hallmarks of this outstanding and highly respected European writer.

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0857051687

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Roads to Berlin

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533 Days

By: Cees Nooteboom

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533 Days

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Cees Nooteboom reflects upon the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening

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030026450X

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533 Days

By: Cees Nooteboom

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533 Days

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Cees Nooteboom reflects upon the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening

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Japan

By: Cees Nooteboom

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Japan

By: Cees Nooteboom

Wat ooit begon met Saigoku, een boek over pelgrimstochten in Japan, werd voor Cees Nooteboom gaandeweg een diepe fascinatie die hem steeds opnieuw zou doen terugkeren naar het keizerrijk. Als onvermoeibare reiziger kijkt hij altijd achter de volgende heuvel, uit nieuwsgierigheid naar een Japan dat hij nog niet kent en begrijpt. Hij voelt een sensueel genot in de mensenmenigtes van Tokio, valt in de snelste trein ter wereld tussen de zingende monniken langzaam in slaap, probeert de verschillende tempels uit elkaar te houden en ziet in dat hij daar nog een volgend leven voor nodig zal hebben. In Japan komen deze reisverhalen voor het eerst samen. Met zijn vermogen om de fijnere nuances van het land te begrijpen, richt Cees Nooteboom een persoonlijk monument op voor de kunst, landschappen en inwoners.

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Bezige Bij b.v., Uitgeverij De

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9403162600

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9789403162607

Rembrandt and Velázquez

Dutch and Spanish Masters

By: Gregor J. M. Weber

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Rembrandt and Velázquez

Dutch and Spanish Masters

By: Gregor J. M. Weber

Rembrandt-Velázquez: Dutch and Spanish Masters' presents the best work of two seventeenth-century master painters from the Netherlands and Spain. Works by Rembrandt and Velázquez are presented in a context of contemporaries and compatriots, including spectacular works by Zurbarán, Vermeer, Murillo, Hals, Valdés Leal, Torrentius, Ribera and others. 'Rembrandt-Velázquez' focuses on themes such as religion and realism, beauty and emotion. Presented in pairs, the Spanish and Dutch masterpieces enter into a dialogue. In his essay Hans den Hartog Jager looks for the differences and similarities between two of the greatest painters of all time - and arrives at an unexpected conclusion. Cees Nooteboom takes the reader back to his memories of Spain and reflects on the history and art of the country he calls his second homeland. Exhibition: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (11.10.2019-19.02.2020).

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Nai010 Publishers

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9462085277

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9789462085275

All Souls' Day

By: Cees Nooteboom

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All Souls' Day

By: Cees Nooteboom

In navolging van een misprijzend bedoelde beschrijving van de 'luie Javaan' in een schoolboekje bestaat het leven van een man in Berlijn voor een groot deel uit vrije tijd, die hij wijdt aan het nadenken over de tijd.

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