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The first trips, a labyrinth of alleys, the old residents of Menorca or the youthful excesses of the young Nooteboom... images and experiences of the past make up Red Rain, a multifaceted book that reveals the reflections, enthusiasms and concerns of the renowned Dutch author in the island. An intimate and dazzling collection of texts; mosaic of stories and memories that take place in the house in Menorca where, for fifty years, Cees Nooteboom has spent several months every summer. In it, this tireless traveler finds peace and tranquility in the garden, among trees, stones and animals, all of them endowed with names and personalities. Nooteboom recovers in this book the essence of his past and brings together some of the fundamental themes that make up his work: friendship, travel, art, landscape and the inexorable passage of time... The result is a compendium of brilliant reflections autobiographical of one of the great representatives of contemporary travel literature.