Roads to Santiago

Informationen zum Autor Cees Nooteboom was born in the Hague in 1933. He is a poet and the author of prize-winning fiction and travel books. In 1993 he won the Aristeion European Literature Prize for his novel The Following Story . His books have been translated into many languages. Klappentext A collection of twenty-five essays on Spain, from the author of )Rituals( and )The Following Story(. Written between 1979 and 1992, these pieces can be used as a guide to the Spain beyond the tourist resorts, at the same time filling the reader with a longing for the country. 40 b/w photos by Simone Sassen. Zusammenfassung A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history! its politics! its art! literature and architecture! its climate and its people! in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain and reveals his obsession for a country he has come to know intimately over the course of forty years.

Product details

• Authors: Cees Nooteboom
• Assisted by: Ina Rike (Translation), Ina Rilke (Translation), Rilke Ina (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.1998
• EAN: 9781860464195
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-419-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Cultural Studies, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Pictorials, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, TRAVEL / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Spanish culture; Spain; books about Spain