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01951aam a2200337 i 4500 001 7EB757CC6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 141112s2014 enka 000 0 eng c 010 $a 2014472499 020 $a 0857052756 020 $a 9780857052759 035 $a (OCoLC)883462002 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d DLC $d YDXCP $d CDX $d NDD $d NOC $d OCLCF $d OCL $d NZRPM $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h dut 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT5881.24 O55 B7513 2014 100 1 $a Nooteboom, Cees, $d 1933- $e author. 240 10 $a Brieven aan Poseidon. $l English 245 10 $a Letters to Poseidon / $c Cees Nooteboom ; preface by Alberto Manguel ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. 264 1 $a London : $b MacLehose Press, $c 2014. 300 $a 269 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 546 $a Translated from the Dutch. 520 $a "At once playful and poignant, beautiful and bizarre, this masterpiece uses the minutiae of everyday life to illuminate the broadest questions of human existence, all couched in the glittering prose of one of Europe's outstanding stylists. The Roman emperor Caligula famously called off an invasion of Britain and instead ordered his legions into the surf to attack the god of the sea. Cees Nooteboom is more civil. As autumn falls each year he writes Poseidon a letter requesting permission to return to his home in Minorca the following spring. Of course, it would be discourteous if the letters were no more than a series of demands. So Cees seeks the wisdom of the trident-wielding deity, and takes the opportunity to keep him up to speed on his own musings"--Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Poseidon (Greek deity) 700 1 $a Manguel, Alberto. 700 1 $a Watkinson, Laura, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826111723.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7EB757CC6B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search