by Cees Nooteboom · Vintage Books USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099497158
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«Lost Paradise» is the literary fiction novel by Cees Nooteboom, published by Vintage Books USA in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Almut and Alma, two Brazilians fascinated by Australia, travel from São Paulo to Sydney. After an assault, Alma begins a brief romance with an Aboriginal artist; both take part in Perth's Angel Project, which hides angels around the city. A man in an alpine spa reunites with a woman he spent a night with, dressed as an angel.
The original Dutch, Paradijs verloren, was published in 2004; the English translation is by Susan Massotty.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in Australia, Aboriginal peoples, and interwoven narratives.
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
