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Cees Nooteboom

Nooteboom has received a German Order of Merit and the Aristeon European Literary Prize.

Lost Paradise, an excerpt

It had been summer when he arrived in Perth. He had never been cooped up in a plane for so long. The eighteen hours to Sydney had been followed by a flight across a continent with a population only slightly larger than that of the Netherlands, though it was nearly as big as the United States.

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The Brooklyn Rail

SEPT 2023

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