Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom

››› Get audio book for free. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Lost Paradise ISBN: 0802118550 ISBN13: 9780802118554 Autor: Cees Nooteboom/Susan Massotty (Translation) Rating: 3.1 of 5 stars (2325) counts Original Format: Hardcover, 151 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, DJVU, iBook. Published: October 10th 2007 / by Grove Press / (first published 2004) Language: English Genre(s): Fiction- 15 users Literature- 7 users Cultural >Australia- 5 users European Literature >Dutch Literature- 4 users Romance- 2 users Paranormal >Angels- 2 users Literary Fiction- 2 users

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Description: Cees Nooteboom, hailed by A. S. Byatt as “one of the greatest modern novelists,” is one of Holland’s most important authors. In Lost Paradise , Nooteboom’s most ambitious book yet, he sets out to uncover the connections between two seemingly unrelated travelers: a beautiful stranger aboard a Berlin-bound flight and a haggard-looking man on a Holland train platform. With his fleeting impressions of these encounters, Nooteboom builds a complex, haunting story of longing, regret, and rebirth in the dawn of the new millennium. Alma, a young woman of German descent, leaves her parents’ Sao Paolo home on a hot summer night. Her car engine dies in one of the city’s most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds her, and she is pulled from the automobile. Not long after, Dutch novelist Erik Zontag is in Perth, Australia, for a literary conference and finds a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house. The intersection of their paths illuminates the ways in which the divine touches our lives. Lost Paradise is an affirmation of our underlying humanity in an increasingly fragmented age, a deeply resonant tale of cosmically thwarted love.

About Author:

Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, 31 July 1933, in the Hague) is a Dutch author. He has won the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the P. C. Hooft Award, the Pegasus Prize, the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Rituelen, the Austrian State Prize for

European Literature and the Constantijn Huygens Prize, and has frequently been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. His works include Rituelen (Rituals, 1980); Een lied van schijn en wezen (A Song of Truth and Semblance, 1981); Berlijnse notities (Berlin Notes, 1990); Het volgende verhaal (The Following Story, 1991); Allerzielen (All Souls' Day, 1998) and Paradijs verloren (Paradise Lost, 2004). (Het volgende verhaal won him the Aristeion Prize in 1993.) In 2005 he published "De slapende goden | Sueños y otras mentiras", with lithographs by Jürgen Partenheimer.

Other Editions:

- Pierdutul paradis (Paperback)

- Paradijs verloren (Hardcover)

- Paradies verloren (Paperback)

- Lost Paradise: A Novel (Paperback)

- Paradies verloren: Roman (Hardcover)

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Rewiews:

Mar 19, 2013 Dolors Rated it: it was amazing Shelves: read-in-2012, best-ever An exquisite tale full of symbolism, sensuality and taste. I finished the book in just one sitting and after I turned the last page, I felt as if I had savoured an expensive rare bitter sweet chocolate. Two seemingly disconnected stories in two separate parts. In the first one, Alma and Almut from Brazil decide to make their dream come true and travel to Australia, a country which has always been fascinating to them. Once there, they change in different and unexpected ways, and while Alma is able t An exquisite tale full of symbolism, sensuality and taste. I finished the book in just one sitting and after I turned the last page, I felt as if I had savoured an expensive rare bitter sweet chocolate. Two seemingly disconnected stories in two separate parts. In the first one, Alma and Almut from Brazil decide to make their dream come true and travel to Australia, a country which has always been fascinating to them. Once there, they change in different and unexpected ways, and while Alma is able to confront her inner demons, Almut feels disappointed and misses Sao Paulo. In the second, Erik, a German literary critic travels to a spa to improve his health and meets someone from his past, a person he was never able to forget. Angels in all forms are present along the story, connecting all the characters and leading them to a breathtaking conclusion. Nooteboom addresses to the reader before each part, a gesture I found intimate and delightful, I just loved the humility in which he exposed what his characters meant to him and how they kept living on their own, even after he had written the last page. Stunning novel, brief, dreamlike and smooth, as an angel kiss. Not to be missed.

***MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS*** "I left the heaviness of the tropics, where all is motion and noise, to arrive at this stillness." "You are a secret, even if you don't realise it." "Sometimes I would sooner ask a question than know the answer." "When I stand outside here, I do not just see the stars, I hear them." "I have arrived. And when I leave, I will not need to take anything with me. I have everything." "The triumph comes from realising - if only for a moment - that you are at once mortal and immortal." "Angels can't be with people." 11 likes 9 comments

Lynne King Dolors, I've got the five volumes of her Diaries and the six volumes of her Letters. I would have a word with Kris about these two books you mention as Dolors, I've got the five volumes of her Diaries and the six volumes of her Letters. I would have a word with Kris about these two books you mention as she is the expert here! Kris also wrote a review on her Diaries not too long ago I believe.

updated Jul 06, 2013 03:12PM

Dolors Oh, alright! I will ask Kris. Thank you Lynne.

Jul 06, 2013 03:25PM