533

A Book of Days

533
Cees Nooteboom, Laura Watkinson
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Hardback
h196 x 138mm - 224pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781529402582
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533 days in the life of a great European writer. "The very first pages are so powerful that you suspect the author must have binned the preceding pages that were needed to climb to such heights" De VolkskrantThough a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates, but "a book of days", with observations about what is immediately around him, his love for Menorca, his thoughts on the world, on life and death, on literature and oblivion. Every impression opens windows onto vast horizons: the Divine Comedy and the books it generated, the contempt of Borges for Gombrowicz, the death of David Bowie, the endless flight of the Voyagers, the repetition of history as a tragedy, but never as farce. 533 is a meditative rhapsody that would like to exclude the noise of current events, yet must return to them several times, and sceptically contemplates the threat of a disintegrating Europe. Reading this book is like having an extraordinary conversation with an extraordinary mind. "The 533 days captivate in their undisguised openness to the world" Suddeutsche ZeitungPhotographs by Simone Sassen * Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson
The very first pages are so powerful that you suspect the author must have binned the preceding pages that were needed to climb to such heights. He amazes the reader with images that are bursting with energy. * de Volkskrant * Nooteboom' s book of days is a magnificent book. It is written in an outstanding style. He writes about the most ordinary things, but in a lyrical way . . . A jewel of a book * Leeskost * A journal of observations and reflections, full of profundities and bright linguistic concision -- Ulrich Greiner * Die Zeit * the 533 days captivate in their undisguised openness to the world -- Harald Eggebrecht * Sueddeutsche Zeitung *
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Minorca. He is a poet and novelist who has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the Pegasus Prize and the Aristeion Prize for his novels, which include Rituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), and All Souls' Day (2001). His books of travel writing, Roads to Santiago (1997) and Roads to Berlin (2012) have become backlist classics.

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