Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany - Hardcover

Nooteboom, Cees

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1623650976 ISBN 13: 9781623650971

Verlag: MACLEHOSE PR, 2013

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The winner of numerous literary awards including the Anne Frank Prize and Goethe Prize, Cees Nooteboom, novelist, poet and journalist, "is a careful prose stylist of a notably philosophical bent." (J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books)

In Roads to Berlin, Nooteboom's reportage, "from a 1963 Khrushchev rally in East Berlin to the tearing down of the Palast der Republik, brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its â??associated layers of memory,'" The Economist said. The book maps the changing landscape of post-World-War-II Germany, from the period before the fall of the Berlin 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.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Minorca. He is a poet, a novelist, and a travel writer whose books include Rituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), Roads to Santiago (1997) and All Souls' Day (2001) and The Foxes Come at Night (2011).

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Laura Watkinson translates from Dutch, Italian and German. She lives in Amsterdam and in 2008 founded the Dutch chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Minorca. He is a poet, a novelist, and a travel writer whose books includeRituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), Roads to Santiago (1997) andAll Souls' Day (2001) and The Foxes Come at Night (2011).

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Laura Watkinson translates from Dutch, Italian and German. She lives in Amsterdam and in 2008 founded the Dutch chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MACLEHOSE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1623650976
• ISBN 13: 9781623650971
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
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