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Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
29.99 AUD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Roman emperor Caligula famously called off an invasion of Britain and instead ordered his legions into the surf to attack the god of the sea. Cees Nooteboom is more civil. As autumn falls each year he writes Poseidon a letter requesting permission to return to his home in Minorca the following sprin ...Show more
Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his P ...Show more
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An unintentional suicide survivor, the unexpected gift of life returned lends him the curiousity, and impartiality, to survey others' lives and rountines. Inni's opposite, the one-e ...Show more
Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
29.99 AUD
Category: History
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 course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification ...Show more
Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany by Cees Nooteboom
27.00 AUD
Category: History
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 course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification ...Show more
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
12.99 AUD
14.99 (13% off)
Category: Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by David Mitchell. 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 ...Show more
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water by Cees Nooteboom
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERT ...Show more
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