From “one of the greatest modern novelists” comes a haunting tale
of angels, art, and modern love (A. S. Byatt). In Lost Paradise,
Cees Nooteboom sets out to connect two seemingly unrelated strangers
whom he has glimpsed on his travels, and to explore the major impact
that small interactions can have on the course of our journeys. A
beautiful woman aboard a Berlin-bound flight becomes Alma, a young
lady who leaves her parents’ São Paulo home on a hot summer night
in a fit of depression. Her car engine dies in one of the city’s
most dangerous favelas, a mob surrounds her, and she is pulled from
the automobile. To escape her memory of the assault, she flees
across the world, to Australia, where she becomes involved in the
beautiful but bizarre Angel Project. Not long after, Dutch literary
critic Erik Zontag is in Perth, Australia, for a conference. He has
found a winged woman curled up in a closet in an empty house. He
reaches out, and for a second allows his fingertips to brush her
feathers—and then she speaks. The intersection of their paths
illuminates the extraordinary coincidences that propel our lives.
“Dreamy and self-conscious . . . [Nooteboom] brazenly explores
notions of reinvention, healing, loss, and the divine.” —Tom
Barbash, The New York Times Book Review
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ISBN
9781555848712
Publisert
2014
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Grove Press (ORIM)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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