Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom

Lost Paradise by Cees Nooteboom

In Lost Paradise, 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' Sao Paolo 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.

Nooteboom, Cees: - Cees Nooteboom is one of Europe's leading living authors. His poetry, novels and, travel literature have been translated into many languages. Several of his books, including Light Everywhere and Monk's Eye, are also available from Seagull Books.

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ISBN 13	9780802118554
ISBN 10	0802118550
Title	Lost Paradise
Author	Cees Nooteboom
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove Press
Year published	2007-10-10
Number of pages	208
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