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Consisting of 25 essays on Spain, it is a kind of love letter to a country, which held for the author a deep fascination over many years and about which he is exceptionally knowledgeable.
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Character-led, warm, contemplative and grave.
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- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Cees Nooteboom
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Harvill Press, Harcourt Brace, Harcourt
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780151001972
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“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVE and yet I believe it: there are some places in the world where one is mysteriously magnified on arrival or departure by the emotions of all those who have arrived and departed before.”
"Cees Nooteboom wurde 1933 in Den Haag geboren und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten niederländischen Schriftsteller der Generation. 1955 erschien sein erster Roman Das Paradies ist nebenan, welcher 2003 in der Neuübersetzung von Helga van Beuningen unter dem Titel Philip und die anderen eine große Leserschaft fand. Nooteboom berichtete 1956 als junger Autor über den Ungarn-Aufstand, 1963 über den SED-Parteitag, und fünf Jahre später über die Studentenunruhen in Paris. Seine inzwischen in mehreren Bänden gesammelten Reiseberichte, die weniger Reportagen als vielmehr von genauer Beobachtung getragene, reflektierende Betrachtungen sind, festigten Nootebooms Ruf als Reiseschriftsteller. 1980 fan
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