Rituals
$33.42
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2013
Summary
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-eyed downhill skier Arnold Taads measures his life by the clock, while his disowned son Philip follows Japanese rituals which themselves seem to render his existence meaningless.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782067177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782067175 |
| Author: | Cees Nooteboom, Adrienne Dixon, A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
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‘Should appeal to anyone who likes Italo Calvino or Paul Auster’ Michael Dirda, Washington Times.
‘Sharp, elegant prose … It recalls, in tone, Vladimir Nabokov. The language is, by turns, delicately allusive and rich, even ripely comic’ D.J. Enright, T.L.S. * TLS *‘Should appeal to anyone who likes Italo Calvino or Paul Auster’ Michael Dirda, Washington Times. * Washington Times *
About The Author
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Minorca. He is a poet and novelist who has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the Pegasus Prize and the Aristeion Prize for his novels, which include Rituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), and All Souls’ Day (2001). His books of travel writing, Roads to Santiago (1997) and Roads to Berlin (2012) have become backlist classics.
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