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The Following Story
Cees Nooteboom
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Description for The Following Story
Paperback. One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 88.
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. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. And so Herman begins a physical journey and a metaphysical adventure, which will re-route him via past loves, through the pangs and pleasures of memory, and to the very heart of that crucial question: ‘who am I?’.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099582885
SKU
V9780099582885
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About Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933. He is a poet and the author of several novels and travel books. He has journeyed through much of the world - he made his first voyage as a sailor to earn his passage from his native Holland to South America, and he has been travelling ever since. His first taste ... Read more
Reviews for The Following Story
One of the greatest modern novelists
A. S. Byatt The prose has such clarity, charm and lightness that you take to disorientation with pleasure
Michael Ignatieff
Sunday Times
After years of distinction in his own country, Cees Nooteboom has commanded attention with this gentle, European Literature Prize-winning story
Independent
He is a thinker as ... Read more
A. S. Byatt The prose has such clarity, charm and lightness that you take to disorientation with pleasure
Michael Ignatieff
Sunday Times
After years of distinction in his own country, Cees Nooteboom has commanded attention with this gentle, European Literature Prize-winning story
Independent
He is a thinker as ... Read more