Roads to Berlin
Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany
$41.85
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2013
Summary
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification.
Nooteboom’s writings on politics, people, architecture and culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine and Goethe, s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848662919 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848662912 |
| Author: | Cees Nooteboom, Laura Watkinson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2013 |
| Weight: | 303g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘As Jan Morris is to Venice or Trieste, as Edmund White to Paris and Claudio Magris to the Danube, so is Cees Nooteboom to Berlin’ Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent.
‘He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald’ Economist. * Economist *
‘As Jan Morris is to Venice or Trieste, as Edmund White to Paris and Claudio Magris to the Danube, so is Cees Nooteboom to Berlin’ Rebecca K. Morrison, Independent. * Independent *
‘An exciting account of those turbulent far-off events’ Ian Thomson, Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *
‘An exciting account of those turbulent far-off events’ Ian Thomson, Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on Minorca. He is a world-renowned poet, novelist and travel writer.
Laura Watkinson translates from Dutch, Italian and German and lives in Amsterdam.
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