Roads to Berlin

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Roads to Berlin
Authors and Contributors      Translated by Laura Watkinson
By (author) Cees Nooteboom
Translated by Laura Watkinson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9781848662919
ClassificationsDewey:943.155088
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Quercus Publishing
Imprint MacLehose Press
Publication Date 26 September 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 country to its present day.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

'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 *