Otto de Kat, born in 1946, lives and works as a publisher and novelist in Amsterdam. Man on the Move (MacLehose Press, 2009) was the winner of Holland's Halewijn Literature Prize. Ina Rilke is the prize-winning translator of books by Cees Nooteboom, W. F. Hermans, Erwin Mortier, Tessa de Loo, Dai Sijie, Margriet de Moor and Arthur Japin, among others.
A sequence of memories beautifully linked together by the images drifting through the mind of a man waiting to die' Guardian. Guardian 'De Kat's ambition of theme is served by astonishing tautness of construction and spareness of language' Independent. Independent 'Emotionally shattering, it is also distinguished by logical intricacy of art and precision of detail' Paul Binding, T.L.S. Books of the Year. Paul Binding 'A monumental little book' Roger Cox, Scotsman. Scotsman