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Mokusei: A Love Story | Cees Nooteboom
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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 people--with its exoticism--and see Japan as it truly is? The 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 and his career, and, feeling out of place and 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, and plans of her own. This moving novel of obsession and difference is the latest masterwork from one of the greatest European writers working today, redolent with the power of desire and alive to the limits of our understanding of others.
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Mokusei: A Love Story | Cees Nooteboom
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#IndelibleMoments Day 11: There is #SearchForMeaning here as well as search for a love lost.

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Mokusei: A Love Story | Cees Nooteboom
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Beautiful novella over a Dutch photographer who falls in love with the Japanese model of whom he takes pictures. She is as mysterious as the country itself. He never knows what she thinks, what is beneath the surface. He longs for her when they are separated but when they are together he keeps wondering who she is. Is she who he wants her to be? Just like Japan, of which we have many fixed ideas and expectations.
A beautiful love story. #Dutch

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