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Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Travel
One fine day, and I know how romantic and old-fashioned that sounds, but it is what happened in my case, I packed a rucksack, took leave of my mother, and caught the train to Breda. An hour later - you know how small the Netherlands is - I was standing at the side of the road on the Belgian border stick ...Show more
Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Fiction
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the 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 ...Show more
Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany by Cees Nooteboom
Category: History
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the 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 ...Show more
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Accessories
This title comes with an introduction by David Mitchell. One morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife. Yet he is quite certain that the night before he went to sleep as normal in his house in Amsterdam. And so Herman begins ...Show more
Venice by Cees Nooteboom; Laura Watkinson (Translator)
Category: Travel
"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERTO MANGUEL VENICE: "A dream of palaces and churches, of power and money, dominion and decline, a paradise of beauty." By the author of Roads to Santiago and Roads to Berlin Wi ...Show more
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water by Cees Nooteboom
Category: Travel | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERT ...Show more
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