Lost paradise

R$ 73,90

Sinopse

Alma and Almut share a fascination for Australia and its ancient peoples; their ceremonies, sand drawings and body paintings. After Alma suffers a traumatic attack, they board a cheap flight from São Paulo to Sydney, and together begin their journey across their secret continent. Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, and both women become involved with the Angel Project in Perth, where actors dressed as angels are concealed around the city for the public to discover. In a seemingly unconnected story, a man staying at a remote Alpine spa unexpectedly meets a woman he encountered years before and with whom he shared a single night. It was in a faraway city and she was dressed as an angel.

Participantes

Autor: Cees Nooteboom

Tradutor: Susan Massotty

Autor

CEES NOOTEBOOM

Cees Nooteboom (1933, Haia, Holanda) é o escritor contemporâneo de maior destaque nos Países Baixos. Ensaísta, poeta e expoente da literatura de viagem, tem cinco obras publicadas no Brasil – os romances Rituais (1980), A seguinte história (1991) e Dia de finados (1998), além do livro de viagens Caminhos para Santiago (1992) e do Paraíso perdido (2004). Comparado a Jorge Luis Borges e J. M. Coetzee, cotado com freqüência para o Prêmio Nobel, Nooteboom tece uma prosa rica em experimentos lingüísticos, mas não abre mão do relato de vivências extremas nem da exploração da interioridade dos personagens.