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The
2003 Award
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All Souls Day by
Cees Nooteboom
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Harcourt ISBN 0151005664
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| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| A Dutch documentary filmmaker finds himself in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century, trying to make sense of his own past in a city where every stone bears traces of history. Having lost his wife and child in a tragic aeroplane crash, he is still coming to terms with the loss, trying to build a new life amid a group of cosmopolitan, wonderfully eccentric friends. As he walks the streets of the recently reunified city, shooting scenes for a film with as yet vague shape, Daane seeks to make a coherent picture of fragments of memory and history. When by chance he meets a mysterious young Dutch-Berber woman named Elik, these rather abstract questions suddenly take on far more concrete shape, and soon Daane is following her to Madrid and the novel's stunning dénouement. All Souls Day is both a love story and a reflection on the way history plays with our lives. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Born in 1933 in The Hague, Cees Nooteboom is one of Europe's most highly regarded writers. He is the author of In the Dutch Mountains, The Following Story (shortlisted for the 1996 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and Roads to Santiago. He lives in Amsterdam and Minorca, Spain. |
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