- Critics, Fiction, Angels, Masseurs
Alma, a young Brazilian women recovering from a traumatic and brutal attack, sets out from Sao Paulo and winds up in Australia, where Dutch novelist Erik Zontag, in Perth for a literary conference, stumbles upon a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Cees Nooteboom
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 156
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker, Suhrkamp, Grove Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- German, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9783518458082
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"Cees Nooteboom wurde 1933 in Den Haag geboren und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten niederländischen Schriftsteller der Generation. 1955 erschien sein erster Roman Das Paradies ist nebenan, welcher 2003 in der Neuübersetzung von Helga van Beuningen unter dem Titel Philip und die anderen eine große Leserschaft fand. Nooteboom berichtete 1956 als junger Autor über den Ungarn-Aufstand, 1963 über den SED-Parteitag, und fünf Jahre später über die Studentenunruhen in Paris. Seine inzwischen in mehreren Bänden gesammelten Reiseberichte, die weniger Reportagen als vielmehr von genauer Beobachtung getragene, reflektierende Betrachtungen sind, festigten Nootebooms Ruf als Reiseschriftsteller. 1980 fan
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