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Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany
Cees Nooteboom
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Description for Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany
Paperback. The fall of the Wall to the present day - Berlin's turbulent history and path to reunification as witnessed by one of Europe's most distinguished authors. Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 352 pages, 80 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
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, steeped in Romanticism and mythology, and to Germany's baroque cities. With an outsider's objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the ... Read more
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, steeped in Romanticism and mythology, and to Germany's baroque cities. With an outsider's objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848662919
SKU
V9781848662919
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About Cees Nooteboom
LAURA WATKINSON lived in England, Scotland, Italy and Germany, before settling in the Netherlands in 2003. Her previous translations include Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Berlin, Letters to Poseidon and Venice, Peter Terrin's Post Mortem, Otto de Kat's The Longest Night and Freetown, and Tonke Dragt's The Letter for the King. Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and ... Read more
Reviews for Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany
'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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more