Product Description: The winner of numerous literary awards including the Anne Frank Prize and Goethe Prize, Cees Nooteboom, novelist, poet and journalist, “is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent.” (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books)   In Roads to Berlin, Nooteboom’s reportage, “from a 1963 Khrushchev rally in East Berlin to the tearing down of the Palast der Republik, brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its ‘associated layers of memory,’” The Economist said...read more

An eloquent and inspirational memoir by the late Dutch novelist describes his mother's life, her marriage to a famed Protestant theologian and pastor, her survival of the Nazi occupation of Holland and internment in a Japanese prison camp, her role as a spiritual adviser, and her courageous battle with stomach cancer. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Important Holocaust memoir by writer with a track record. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Born in Holland in 1910 but raised in Java, Robert Hans van Gulik explored esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including an authentic Chinese 16th century detective novel, around which he created a fictional series. Based on extensive research, renowned author Janwillem van de Wetering, whose life and career parallels that of his subject, examines van Gulik's life and work...read more

In a collection of twenty-five original essays, the author of The Following Story chronicles his travels throughout Spain over the course of three decades, discussing his trip through La Mancha, the magnificent Prado Museum, a visit to the shrine of the Black Madonna of Guadalupe, and more. (view table of contents)

Offers a childhood memoir of life growing up in the twilight of the Weimar Republic, in an account permeated with a looming sense of impending catastrophe

Product Description: Told with an aching beauty...Sunken Red is a cathartic achievement in which we watch Mr. Brouwers emerge from the walking dead.-ew York Times Book deview