Roads to Berlin - Softcover

"["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"
"From the Hardcover edition."""

"A fascinating personal chronicle." Der Tagesspiegel
From the Hardcover edition."

"[Nooteboom] brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its associated layers of memory.... He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald." The Economist"

"[A] deeply philosophical blend of reportage, history, and memoir, capturing the psyche of a people living in the shadow of a wall and of their own past." The New Yorker"

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

"To read Nooteboom is to be introduced to a delicious European sensibility: cultured, erudite, lyrical, searching for answers." The Guardian"

"The book is cleverly written as a history and travel guide which reads like a novel, a unique, one-of-a-kind armchair travel experience you will find fascinating.... A most interesting, informative read that will delight any history or travel buff." www.RealTravelAdventures.com"

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

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

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.

From the Hardcover edition.