Following Story - Couverture rigide

Nooteboom, Cees

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151000980 ISBN 13 : 9780151000982

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994

Synopsis

Herman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man’s wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Nooteboom is 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)

"Sharp, elegant prose... It recalls, in tone, Vladimir Nabokov. The language is, by turns, delicately allusive and rich, even ripely comic" (D. J. Enright Times Literary Supplement)

"Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling. Intricately composed and finely translated, The Following Story will still be delivering after many readings" (Ben Rogers Independent on Sunday)

"Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism - Part travelogue, part love story, this is an exquisite novel" (Rebecca Abrams Guardian)

Quatrième de couverture

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL

'One of the greatest modern novelists' A. S. Byatt

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?’.

See also: The Rings of Saturn

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151000980
• ISBN 13: 9780151000982
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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