Cees Nooteboom

To the dangerous mountains of the south come Kai and Lucia - two beautiful and innocent children of circus performers. But their happiness is doomed when Kai is lured to the palace of the icy Snow Queen. By the winner of the 1963 Van der Hoogt Prize and the 1982 Pegasus Prize for Literature.

Lost Paradise is a 2004 novel by the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. It tells the story of two Brazilian women who move to Australia, and of a Dutch middle-aged critic who goes to an Alpine spa.