Books like All souls' day by Cees Nooteboom
A Dutch documentary filmmaker, dealing with the loss of his wife and child in a tragic air crash, arrives in Berlin at the end of the twentieth century. Amid a city reshaped by reunification, he attempts to make sense of his past and craft a film from fragmented memories. While navigating the cosmopolitan, eccentric inhabitants of the city, a chance meeting with a young Dutch‑Berber woman sparks a new, tangible direction for his project and his life, eventually carrying him to Madrid for an unexpected culmination.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Cees Nooteboom
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