Lost paradise /
Cees Nooteboom ; translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty.
- 1st pbk. ed.
- London : Vintage, 2008.
- 151 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of: Paradijs verloren.
After a brief encounter in Australia involving a participatory artwork called the Angel Project, the lives of Alma, a beautiful young Brazilian woman with emotional scars from a gang rape, and Erik, a middle-aged Dutch literary critic, intersect again years later at an Austrian spa, where Erik has gone to quit drinking.