It has been more than fifty years since the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom (1933-2026) found peace and creative inspiration on the island of Menorca. "It's the place where I've written a good part of my books and poems," he acknowledged six years ago, when he received the Formentor Prize for his prolific and highly regarded work, from his home in Amsterdam. At that time, Nooteboom, who had just turned 87, couldn't travel to the neighboring island to collect the award due to health reasons, but he still had the strength to recall the origins of an obsession with writing that materialized in over fifty books that made him one of the most important figures in the field. In his bibliography, there are at least three titles available in Catalan. The following story (2004), Paradise lost (2006) and Detour to Santiago (2010), all three published by Bromera.