PRAISE FOR CEES NOOTEBOOM:'In this age of literary specialisation, the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom still wears the many-coloured coat of the man of letters – poet, novelist, playwright, translator and travel writer' Michael Malone, New York Times. 'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist. 'His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory'

PRAISE FOR CEES NOOTEBOOM:'In this age of literary specialisation, the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom still wears the many-coloured coat of the man of letters – poet, novelist, playwright, translator and travel writer' Michael Malone, New York Times. 'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist. 'His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory'

PRAISE FOR CEES NOOTEBOOM:'In this age of literary specialisation, the Dutch author Cees Nooteboom still wears the many-coloured coat of the man of letters – poet, novelist, playwright, translator and travel writer' Michael Malone, New York Times. 'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist. 'His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory'