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The figure in the distance / Otto de Kat ; translated from the Dutch by Arnold and Erica Pomerans.
LIBRA PT5881.21.A86 M2613 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kat, Otto de, 1946-
- Standardized Title:
- Man in de verte. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers--Fiction.
- Travelers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 86 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvill, 2002.
- Summary:
- The narrator of this novel is a lifelong traveller--Cambridge, Budapest, New York, Tel Aviv, The Hague and Zurich are all cities he has lived in. But wherever he stays, the impressions he gets and the people he sees remind him of figures from long ago: a lost friend, a former lover, and most often, of all, his father. He has a past, but the present eludes him, and he moves about the world as if a ghost, his intrusive memories ensuring that he is never completely alone and yet never completely happy. The writing is spare and elegant and this enchanting novel will not be easily forgotten.
- ISBN:
- 1860468829
- OCLC:
- 59530654
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