Venice

Zusatztext His writing is lyrical and densely textured. He is a poet of time and memory. Informationen zum Autor Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague in 1933, and now lives in Amsterdam and on the island of Menorca. He is a poet and novelist who has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards such as the Pegasus Prize and the Aristeion Prize for his novels, which include Rituals (1983), The Following Story (1994), and All Souls' Day (2001). His books of travel writing, Roads to Santiago (1997) and Roads to Berlin (2012) have become backlist classics. LAURA WATKINSON lived in England, Scotland, Italy and Germany, before settling in the Netherlands in 2003. Her previous translations include Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Berlin , Letters to Poseidon and Venice , Peter Terrin's Post Mortem , Otto de Kat's The Longest Night and Freetown , and Tonke Dragt's The Letter for the King . Klappentext Dutch author and traveller Cees Nooteboom considers the history and cultural richness of Venice, looking back on fifty years of visits. Zusammenfassung The great Dutch author and traveller Cees Nooteboom (author of Roads to Santiago and The Following Story) sheds new light on the city, its history and its treasures

Product details

• Authors: Cees Nooteboom, Nooteboom Cees, Laura Watkinson
• Assisted by: Laura Watkinson (Translation), Watkinson Laura (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781529402551
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0255-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 224 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Venice, ART / History / Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400