Justin Marozzi

Is it boring being the god of the sea?

Ces Nooteboom asks lots of presumptious questions like this in his Letters to Poseidon, translated by Laura Watkinson – but he’s more than a match for the trident-bearing earth-shaker

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issue 18 October 2014

  • Letters to Poseidon

    by Cees Nooteboom (translated by Laura Watkinson)

    MacLehose Press, pp. 250

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