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Synopsis
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 ‘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
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.
Reviews
Nooteboom, a renowned Dutch novelist, travel writer, and poet, was a visiting scholar in Berlin, and he watched and wrote as the wall came down in 1989. Nooteboom has a historian’s scruples, a fantasist’s Baroque imagination, a novelist’s narrative skill, and a prophet’s sensitivity to the future. Most of the book’s first section was written in that watershed year, while later pieces were written on occasions when he returned and include speeches, articles for German editorial pages, and “intermezzos,” or extended reflections on his previous visits and new circumstances. He revises and refines his sense of Germany, the once divided and now united nation at the center of Europe. This is a valedictory on a country that shaped Nooteboom’s life (born in 1933, he was six when German bombs fell on his native country) and work, including the Berlin-set novel, All Souls Day (2001). Every other page poses a vital question or offers a startling insight, and you can’t believe there are dozens more. This astonishing book conveys a sense of life lived at a crucial time in history. --Michael Autrey
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. 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 a associated layers of memory, ' The Economist said. The book maps the changing landscape of post-World-War-I 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. Seller Inventory # 00095525444
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. 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 a associated layers of memory, ' The Economist said. The book maps the changing landscape of post-World-War-I 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. Seller Inventory # CIN1623650976A
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