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

PRAISE FOR "ROADS TO BERLIN"
"Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists." --A.S. Byatt
"Nooteboom understands well the German national character." --"Die Zeit"
"A fascinating personal chronicle." "Der Tagesspiegel"

PRAISE FOR "ROADS TO BERLIN"

"Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists." --A.S. Byatt

"Nooteboom understands well the German national character." --"Die Zeit"

"A fascinating personal chronicle." "--Der Tagesspiegel"

"A fascinating personal chronicle." ""Der Tagesspiegel"""

"["Roads to Berlin" is] "written with the accuracy of a historian and the imagination of a poet. Beautifully translated, too." "Brandon Ronshaw, "The Independent"""

"A fascinating personal chronicle." Der Tagesspiegel"

"A fascinating personal chronicle."--Der Tagesspiegel

"Nooteboom is one of the greatest modern novelists."--A.S. Byatt

"More than a reporter, more even than a traveler, Nooteboom is a poet. His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory."--Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books

"It is a wonderful voyage of self-discovery, and a psychological exploration of a nation in turmoil."--Quentin Peel, The Financial Times

"An exciting account... Nooteboom wears his erudition lightly, and weaves personal anecdote into memorable reportage."--Ian Thomson, The Sunday Telegraph

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.