Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

- Linda Simon

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and …

- Linda Simon

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

- Linda Simon