Books by Cees Nooteboom

A profound and searching novel from one of Europe's major contemporary writers

533 day 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.

Die Brasilianerin Alma und die Deutsche Almut vereint die Sehnsucht nach Australien. Für beide liegt dort das wahre Paradies verborgen. Schließlich treten sie die abenteuerliche Reise an und entdecken dabei nicht nur verschlungene Pfade zum eigenen Selbst, sondern auch die geheimnisvolle Lebenskultur der Aborigines. Bei einem Projekt der besonderen Art entdecken sie die Kraft der Phantasie – und der Liebe. Cees Nooteboom wurde 1931 in Den Haag geboren. Er arbeitete als Journalist und Literaturkritiker. 1955 erschien sein erster Roman Philip en de anderen, im Anschluss verfasste er zahlreiche Reportagen und Reiseberichte, die Nooteboom seinen Ruf als Reiseschriftsteller einbrachten. 1980 kehrte er zur fiktionalen Prosa zurück. Nootebooms Werke wurden in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt, er selbst erhielt zahlreiche Ehrungen und Preise.

Mokusei eröffnet auf literarische Weise verschiedene Blickwinkel auf das Land der aufgehenden Sonne: Japan. Arnold Pessers, Fotograf aus den Niederlanden, erkundet das Land für einen Auftrag und schwankt zwischen Kritik und Verklärung. Das Land, das zum einen den Westen imitiert, ist gleichermaßen ein Symbol verklärter Erhabenheit. Schließlich trifft er auf ein japanisches Modell, das er fotografieren soll, und nennt sie fortan nach einer der wenigen Blumen in Japan Mokusei. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich eine Liebesgeschichte der besonderen Art.Cees Nooteboom wurde 1931 in Den Haag geboren. Er arbeitete als Journalist und Literaturkritiker. 1955 erschien sein erster Roman Philip en de anderen, im Anschluss verfasste er zahlreiche Reportagen und Reiseberichte, die Nooteboom seinen Ruf als Reiseschriftsteller einbrachten. 1980 kehrte er zur fiktionalen Prosa zurück. Nootebooms Werke wurden in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt, er selbst erhielt zahlreiche Ehrungen und Preise.

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 Minorca, where he has spent summers for decades.

Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel "The Following Story", is one of the most distinguished and significant authors of the Netherlands. This book draws on Nooteboom's personal reflections - his arsenal of memories, dreams, fantasies, landscapes, stories, and nightmares - and presents a set of prose poems that complements Neumann's work.

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 photographer find a model to shoot in front of Mount Fuji as the "typical Japanese." The plan works better than either had imagined--in fact, it works too well: the photographer falls in love, neglects his friend and his career, and, feeling out of place and disillusioned in Holland, returns to Japan as often as possible over the next five years. A reunion is planned: the three will meet again at Mount Fuji. Time, it seems, has stood still . . . except the woman has a secret, and plans of her own. This moving novel of obsession and difference is the latest masterwork from one of the greatest European writers working today, redolent with the power of desire and alive to the limits of our understanding of others.

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.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife.

In eight inimitable stories, Cees Nooteboom, one of the great modern novelists, meditates on love, loss and the shadow of death.

An elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer.

A novel for those who seek to unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives... A wry, witty and insightful classic.

A memoir of reflections and pictures by one of the great European novelists.

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 around the city for the public to discover.

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 domesticated vistas of Australia and Zurich, and finds poetry and beauty in them all.

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 and reveals his obsession for a country he has come to know intimately over the course of forty years.