Новинки Сэйса Нотебоома

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous Alpine ranges in the south. Kai and Lucia are circus illusionists, and when Kai is kidnapped, Lucia must rescue him from the Snow Queen's palace.
In the Dutch Mountains is an elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer.

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.
A novel for those who seek to unravel our mysterious, apparently directionless lives...

"Ритуалы" - пронзительный роман о трагическом одиночестве человека, лучшее произведение самого яркого современного писателя Нидерландов. На родине автора роман был удостоен премии имени Ф. Бордевейка, в США - премии "Пегас".
Сильнейшая чувственность и великолепный стиль этой книги заставляют вспомнить старых голландских мастеров натюрморта.
"Нойе цюрхер цайтунг"
Сэйс Нотебоом - уникальный, изумительный голос в хоре современных писателей.
"Нью-Йорк таймс"

'One of the great books about Spain' - Tristan Garel-Jones, Observer
A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain and reveals his obsession for a country he has come to know intimately over the course of forty years.

One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man’s wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. And so Herman begins a physical journey and a metaphysical adventure, which will re-route him via past loves, through the pangs and pleasures of memory, and to the very heart of that crucial question: ‘who am I?’.

Вот уж более пяти десятков лет всемирно известный писатель Сэйс Нотебоом находится во власти очарования Венеции. Начиная с первой поездки в 1964 году Нотебоом тонко переплетает свои многочисленные путешествия в город на воде, воскрешая к жизни совершенно неожиданные места, восхищаясь садами, запертыми калитками, несчетными каналами и отдавая дань уважения художникам, писателям и поэтам, некогда жившим и работавшим в этом городе, дворцам, мостам, живописным полотнам и скульптурам, что принесли Венеции бессмертие.

Знаменитый нидерландский писатель, поэт и автор путевых заметок Сэйс Нотебоом отдает дань уважения Венеции - городу, его истории и его сокровищам.
Он воскрешает к жизни совершенно неожиданные места, любуясь садами, запертыми калитками, несчетными каналами и восхищаясь художниками, писателями и поэтами, некогда жившими и работавшими в этом городе, дворцами, мостами, живописными полотнами и скульптурами, что принесли Венеции бессмертие.
У Сэйса Нотебоома совершенно особенный голос, а зачастую и новый угол зрения… Вся эта книга - яркое свидетельство человека, который не может отвести взгляд и видит то, что другие - даже весьма сведущие специалисты - увидеть не сумели.
Грегори Даулинг.
"Уолл-стрит джорнал"

In Tokyo, a Dutchman and a Belgian talk about the two faces of Japan—the European (exotic, pure) idea of the country and the real country. One is a diplomat, the other a photographer. The diplomat helps the photographer find a model with whom he documents the 'typical Japanese', complete with shots of Mount Fuji. He falls in love with the model and, over the next few years, returns of Japan as often as possible. He is in ruins, he neglects his friends, he feels disillusioned in the Netherlands. And when they meet for the last time and prepare to repeat the photo session at Mount Fuji, it is as if time as stood still—nothing seems to have changed, yet everything has. Mokusei! is not only a lyrical exploration of the beauty of Japan and the intensity of love but also a meditation on the very nature of time.

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read more like a novel, a meditation on memory, life and death. Their protagonists collect and reconstruct fragments of lives lived intensely, and now lost, crystallized in memory or in the detail of a photograph. And yet the tone of these stories is far from pessimistic: it seems that death is nothing to be afraid of.

The winner of numerous literary awards including the Anne Frank Prize and Goethe Prize, Cees Nooteboom, novelist, poet and journalist, “is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent.” (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books)

In Roads to Berlin, Nooteboom’s reportage, “from a 1963 Khrushchev rally in East Berlin to the tearing down of the Palast der Republik, brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its ‘associated layers of memory,’” The Economist said. The book maps the changing landscape of post-World-War-II Germany, from the period before the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nooteboom’s writings on politics, people, architecture, and culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine and Goethe, steeped in Romanticism and mythology, and to Germany’s baroque cities. With an outsider’s objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day.

Сэйс Нотебоом - знаменитый нидерландский поэт, прозаик и эссеист. В "Тексте" выходили его романы "Ритуалы", "День поминовения", "Филип и другие" и книга путевых очерков "Красный дождь". Герои "Потерянного рая" беспрестанно перемещаются - то во времени, то в пространстве. Перебивая друг друга, они рассказывают свои истории, блуждают по миру, перелетая из Бразилии в…