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All Souls' Day

By Cees Nooteboom

Paperback | 9780330392600

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A brilliant new novel-evocative and philosophical, poetic and passionate.

A Dutch documentary filmmaker finds himself in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century, trying to make sense of his own past in a city where every stone bears traces of history. Having lost his wife and child in an aContinue

A brilliant new novel-evocative and philosophical, poetic and passionate.

A Dutch documentary filmmaker finds himself in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century, trying to make sense of his own past in a city where every stone bears traces of history. Having lost his wife and child in an airplane crash, he is still coming to terms with the grief, trying to build a new life amid a group of cosmopolitan, splendidly eccentric friends. As he walks the streets of a recently reunified Berlin city, shooting scenes for a film with as yet vague shape, Daane seeks to make a coherent picture of fragments of memory and history. When by chance he meets a mysterious young Dutch-Berber woman named Elik, these rather abstract questions suddenly take on far more concrete shape, and soon Daane follows Elik to Madrid and the novel's stunning denouement.

All Souls Day is both a love story and a reflection on the way history plays with our lives. It is an extraordinary achievement.

Critics

  • More matter, less art

    All Souls' Day Cees Nooteboom, trans Susan Massoty 512pp, Picador, £16.99 Arthur is a middle-aged Dutch documentary-maker who has recently lost his wife and child in a plane crash. Now he lives rootlessly in Berlin and, when he's not off on jobs, moo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Cees Nooteboom – All Souls’ Day

    Stephen Mitchelmore All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom See all books by Cees Nooteboom at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com "The shortcut does not allow one to arrive someplace more directly (more quickly), but rather to lose the way that ought to lead there." ... (read full critics)

    spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 200 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0330392603
  • ISBN-13: 9780330392600
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Aug 09, 2002
  • Dimensions: 190 mm x 130 mm x 20 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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