Lost Paradise

Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket seems very slightly tanned to edges. Otherwise fine. Translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty. *** “Framed by masterful reflections on misunderstandings in life and literature, Nooteboom’s short work, at once delicate and chiseled, achieves a dreamlike suspension of time and place.” (Publisher’s Weekly) Art, travel, philosophy – one of Holland’s best-known writers is on fine form here. The Dutch title of this work is Paradijs verloren, a direct copy of the title of John Milton’s famous poem. (Paradise Lost would have been a more accurate translation.)