The Following Story (Signed First Edition)

Cees Nooteboom

ISBN 10: 0151000980 / ISBN 13: 9780151000982

Published by Harcourt Brace (New York), 1994

About this Item

First United States edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in 1996 along with the place of signing. NOT inscribed to anyone. Just his name, date and place. The Dutch author has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Nooteboom was born in The Hague. His first novel, Philip and the Others, was published in 1955 and won the Anne Frank Prize. His second novel, The Knight Has Died, published in 1963. 17 years later, in 1980, he published Rituals, which brought him wide acclaim in Holland and won the Pegasus Prize. It was also his first book translated into English. THE FOLLOWING STORY is his best-known work to English-speaking audiences and it won the Aristeion Prize in 1993. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Defect-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Following Story (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace (New York)
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151000980
• ISBN 13: 9780151000982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Dutch Literature

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Synopsis

Herman Mussert went to bed last night in Amsterdam and wakes in Lisbon in a hotel room where he slept with another man’s wife more than twenty years ago. Winner of the European Literary Prize for Best Novel, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Translated by Ina Rilke. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Review

"Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists" (A.S. Byatt)

"The prose has such clarity, charm and lightness that you take to disorientation with pleasure" (Michael Ignatieff Sunday Times)

"Sharp, elegant prose... It recalls, in tone, Vladimir Nabokov. The language is, by turns, delicately allusive and rich, even ripely comic" (D. J. Enright Times Literary Supplement)

"Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling. Intricately composed and finely translated, The Following Story will still be delivering after many readings" (Ben Rogers Independent on Sunday)

"Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism - Part travelogue, part love story, this is an exquisite novel" (Rebecca Abrams Guardian)