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Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In "All Souls' Day" we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin provides the backdrop for Daane's reflections on life as he plans his latest project - a self-funded film that will show the world through Daane's eyes. With a new circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Arthur discusses everything from history to metaphysics, and the cumulative power of remembered images and philosophical musings on the meaning of our contemporary existence comes to permeate the atmosphere of the book. Then one cold, wintry day, Daane meets the young history student Elik Orange and his world is turned upside down. Whenever this mysterious woman beckons, Daane is compelled to follow. "All Souls' Day" is, finally, an elegiac love story in which the personal histories of the characters are skilfully interwoven with the history of the countries in which they find themselves. It is also the poignant and affecting tale of a man coming to terms with his place in the world. 'Nooteboom is one of the great modern novelists' - A.S. Byatt.
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Cees Nooteboom, born in The Hague in 1933, has built up an imposing oeuvre made up of novels, collections of poetry, short stories and also travel stories, many of which were first published in magazines and newspapers. With his novel Rituals he won both the Dutch Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and The Following Story was awarded the European Literature Prize in 1993. An inveterate traveller, Nooteboom lives by turns in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.
Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In "All Souls' Day" we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin provides the backdrop for Daane's reflections on life as he plans his latest project - a self-funded film that will show the world through Daane's eyes. With a new circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Arthur discusses everything from history to metaphysics, and the cumulative power of remembered images and philosophical musings on the meaning of our contemporary existence comes to permeate the atmosphere of the book. Then one cold, wintry day, Daane meets the young history student Elik Orange and his world is turned upside down. Whenever this mysterious woman beckons, Daane is compelled to follow. "All Souls' Day" is, finally, an elegiac love story in which the personal histories of the characters are skilfully interwoven with the history of the countries in which they find themselves. It is also the poignant and affecting tale of a man coming to terms with his place in the world. 'Nooteboom is one of the great modern novelists' - A.S. Byatt.
About the Author
Cees Nooteboom, born in The Hague in 1933, has built up an imposing oeuvre made up of novels, collections of poetry, short stories and also travel stories, many of which were first published in magazines and newspapers. With his novel Rituals he won both the Dutch Bordewijk Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and The Following Story was awarded the European Literature Prize in 1993. An inveterate traveller, Nooteboom lives by turns in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands.
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