THE FOLLOWING STORY BY CEES NOOTEBOOM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Condition: Good. Name of previous owner inside. Winner of the Aristeion European Literary Prize, this strikingly original novel is textured with the humour, pathos and expansive knowledge that have become Cees Nooteboom's hallmark. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. 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?'. About the author () Cees Nooteboom was born in the Hague in . He is a poet and the author of prize-winning fiction and travel books. In The Following Story won the Aristeion European Literature Prize. His books have been translated into many languages.