Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern - Softcover

Winder, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330451405 ISBN 13: 9780330451406

Verlag: Picador, 2011

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Críticas:

The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder. Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect. -- Sir Tom Stoppard * TLS * Magnificently crazy -- Will Self * Esquire *

Reseña del editor:

`It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and landscape, Winder describes Germany's past afresh - and in doing so sees a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to eating some very strange food. This accessible, enthusiastic and startlingly vivid account is a brilliant introduction to the hidden wonders of Germany. `A splendid offering' Financial Times `His excitement is beguiling and infectious . . . There are many pleasures to be savoured in Germania, gems that make Winder's clever, rambunctious work a book to treasure' Literary Review `Beautifully written and insightful' Irish Times

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330451405
• ISBN 13: 9780330451406
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480