“A poet’s fairy tale, elegant and beguiling”(Julian Barnes) that summons up a vast Netherlands encompassing Europe’s highest peaks and a captivating pair of circus performers
R. Ceuppens was born in 1923 near Antwerp. Under the pseudonym of No Michiels, he rose during the postwar years as one of the most talented of a group of Flemish writers, Dutch language authors writin
An "intelligent, incisive" (Washington Post) parable about order and chaos by "one of the greatest modern novelists" (A. S. Byatt), Rituals tells the story of Inni Wintrop, a dabbler who floats comfo
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its
Chapel Road is the story of the author L. P. Boon, who continues his "illegal writing" (writing without form or function) of the novel "Chapel Road" amid cynical reflections on the work in progress,
