http://www.conversationalreading.com/2007/03/friday_column_t.html

“The Following Story is small enough that someone could reasonably read in one sitting (although, due to the gravity of the writing, I recommend spacing it out some). Yet in this small frame, Nooteboom has crafted a story that defies simple definition, that can easily support a number of non-superficial interpretations. It is a book that all but compells a reader to go back through it a second time. It is the kind of elegant, managed novel that others, for all their size and extensive plotting, can barely approach the depth of.”