Cees Nooteboom hailed by A. S. Byatt as one of the greatest modernnovelists is one of Hollands most important authors. In <strong>Lost Paradise</strong>Nooteboo... » 

Cees Nooteboom hailed by A. S. Byatt as one of the greatest modernnovelists is one of Hollands most important authors. In Lost ParadiseNootebooms most ambitious book yet he sets out to uncover the connectionsbetween two seemingly unrelated travelers. Alma a young woman of Germandescent leaves her parents Sao Paolo home on a hot summer night. Her carengine dies in one of the citys most dangerous favelas a mob surrounds herand she is pulled from the automobile. Not long after Dutch novelist ErikZontag is in Perth Australia for a literary conference and finds a wingedwoman curled up in a closet in an empty house. The intersection of their pathsilluminates the ways in which the divine touches our lives. With a beautifulstranger aboard a Berlinbound flight and a haggardlooking man on a Hollandtrain platform Nooteboom builds a complex haunting story of longing regretand rebirth in the dawn of the new millennium. Lost Paradise is an affirmationof our underlying humanity in an increasingly fragmented age a deeply resonanttale of cosmically thwarted love. «