Lost Paradise
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:5th Jun '08
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A wonderfully charming and mystical fable about angels, Australia and love.
Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel Project in Perth, where actors dressed as angels are concealed around the city for the public to discover.
Alma and Almut share a fascination for Australia and its ancient peoples; their ceremonies, sand drawings and body paintings. After Alma suffers a traumatic attack, they board a cheap flight from São Paulo to Sydney, and together begin their journey across their secret continent. Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel Project in Perth, where actors dressed as angels are concealed around the city for the public to discover.
In a seemingly unconnected story, a man staying at a remote Alpine spa unexpectedly meets a woman he encountered years before and with whom he shared a single night. It was in a faraway city and she was dressed as an angel...
Beautiful, dreamlike and oddly beguiling * The Times *
A charming, sinuous, playful novel...global, universal, in its scope and feeling -- David Robson * Sunday Telegraph *
Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism -- Rebecca Abrahams * Guardian *
A plot as finely tuned as a concert piano...this is a novel which finally soars * Glasgow Herald *
Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling -- Ben Rogers * Independent on Sunday *
Nooteboom's books are tiny bombs capable of exploding in the imagination of any reader open to adventure * Irish Times *
Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists -- A. S. Byatt
The dense, layered, magical and innovative fictions of Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, who was born in 1933, are always different...superb,elegant and vivid * Irish Times *
The Dutch grandmaster at the height of his powers * Frankfurter Rundschau *
Cees Nooteboom's new novel is inhabited by angels. Paradise seems to be in Australia, while hell is in São Paulo. Nooteboom has effortlessly reworked his travel stories into a surprising variation on an old theme * Trouw *
ISBN: 9780099497158
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 120g
160 pages