In this duel of interpretations, Dutch writer Nooteboom
(who has been repeatedly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize) shows the
whipper-snapper Michael Silverblatt that there are simpler, clearer,
realer reasons for the angels in Lost Paradise (Grove) than the over-interpreting Silverblatt wants to believe.
Cees Nooteboom
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