Author: Cees Nooteboom

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with an...

In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide...

Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can th...

An outstanding addition to an impressive oeuvre Times Literary SupplementArthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, wander...

Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide The Sun...

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a v...

You might think there is little new to say about Venice, but Cees Nooteboom strolls down many under-explored alleyways in the city, his insights co...

I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god?From his Mediterranean garden on the island o...

Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the co...

Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story,is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands tod...

Cees Nooteboom wrote the poems that make up Monk's Eye on two islands: he began them on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and finished them on th...

A lyrical 'book of days' . . . A bejewelled mosaic Financial TimesHumane, insightful and deeply cultured Times Literary SupplementThough a tireless...

An exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europes greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times: the coronavirus p...

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a...