Mokusei!: A Love Story (The German List)
Cees NooteboomThe Belgian has an idea: he helps the photographer find a model to shoot in front of Mount Fuji as the "typical Japanese." The plan works better than either had imagined--in fact, it works too well: the photographer falls in love, neglects his friend & his career, and, feeling out of place & disillusioned in Holland, returns to Japan as often as possible over the next five years.
A reunion is planned: the three will meet again at Mount Fuji. Time, it seems, has stood still . . . except the woman has a secret, & plans of her own. This moving novel of obsession & difference is the latest masterwork from one of the greatest European writers working today, redolent with the power of desire & alive to the limits of our understanding of others.
Born in The Hague in 1933, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland’s most renowned authors & has received a German Order of Merit & the Aristeon European Literary Prize, among others.