- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Thomson Learning; 1st U.S. Ed edition (22 July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0151000980
- ISBN-13: 978-0151000982
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,743,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Keynote/Publishers CommentWinner of the 1993 Aristeion European Literary Prize, this strikingly original novel is textured with the humour, pathos and expansive knowledge that have become the hallmark of Holland's most popular writer.
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Herman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man's wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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I HAVE NEVER had an exaggerated interest in my own person, but unfortunately that did not imply I could stop thinking about myself at will, from one moment to the next. Read the first page
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Cees Nooteboom's The Following Story is a miraculous book. Waking one morning in a hotel room in Lisbon having fallen asleep in his house in Amsterdam, the novel's central character - classical scholar, schoolteacher, writer of pot-boiler travel guides - narrates the events that lead, through affairs and hearsay, to a conclusion that is almost silent in its prosaic devastation. The prose, throughout, is lucid and evocative, humorous and profound. Nooteboom weaves a magical yarn of death and love and the smallness of everyday occurances. And at barely 100 pages perhaps the essence of the modern novel
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This book is beautifully written/translated. It's mysterious and yet the language is precise and the plot carefully structured. A short novel, but probably best read in quiet sittings. Allow yourself the time to go back and re-read passages, soak it in slowly. Lovely reading experience!
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The author is best known in his home country, the Netherlands, and is best known outside the Netherlands for his book Roads to Santiago.
I met the author very briefly in Menorca in October 2010 and was stimulated to buy this book. He has an opinion on everything I think...
The book is short, at less than 100 pages, but is excellent.
The opening line is great: "I have never had an exaggerated interest in my own person, but unfortunately this did not imply I could not stop thinking about myself at will, from one moment to the next".
The book is dream-like almost an educated ramble in part. A tad offbeat but I liked it.
I met the author very briefly in Menorca in October 2010 and was stimulated to buy this book. He has an opinion on everything I think...
The book is short, at less than 100 pages, but is excellent.
The opening line is great: "I have never had an exaggerated interest in my own person, but unfortunately this did not imply I could not stop thinking about myself at will, from one moment to the next".
The book is dream-like almost an educated ramble in part. A tad offbeat but I liked it.
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