Lost Paradise
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099497158
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99

Lost Paradise

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A wonderfully charming and mystical fable about angels, Australia and love.

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...
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099497158
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom was born in the Hague in 1933. He is a poet and the author of prize-winning fiction and travel books. In 1993 he won the Aristeion European Literature Prize for his novel The Following Story. His books have been translated into many languages.

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Also by Cees Nooteboom

Nomad's Hotel
The Following Story
Roads To Santiago
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Praise for Lost Paradise

Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism

Rebecca Abrahams, Guardian

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

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

The Dutch grandmaster at the height of his powers

Frankfurter Rundschau

A beautifully told, mysterious story

Die Zeit

Beautiful, dreamlike and oddly beguiling

The Times

A charming, sinuous, playful novel...global, universal, in its scope and feeling

David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

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

A plot as finely tuned as a concert piano...this is a novel which finally soars

Glasgow Herald

A daring, poetic, provocative, cleansing novel

De Volkskrant
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