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. 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.

• List of illustrations. PART I - Prologue: Crossing the Border. Intermezzo in the Third Person: Vestigia pedis. Second Intermezzo: Ancient Times. PART II - Berlin Suite. Dead Aeroplanes and Eagles Everywhere. Village within the Wall. Rheinsberg: An Intermezzo. Return to Berlin. PART III. PART IV - A Visit to the Chancellor. Epilogue. Glossary including biographical and other explanatory notes. Index. Afterword to Part I. Notes on this Edition.

'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist.

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. 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.

• List of illustrations. PART I - Prologue: Crossing the Border. Intermezzo in the Third Person: Vestigia pedis. Second Intermezzo: Ancient Times. PART II - Berlin Suite. Dead Aeroplanes and Eagles Everywhere. Village within the Wall. Rheinsberg: An Intermezzo. Return to Berlin. PART III. PART IV - A Visit to the Chancellor. Epilogue. Glossary including biographical and other explanatory notes. Index. Afterword to Part I. Notes on this Edition.

'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist.

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. 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.

• List of illustrations. PART I - Prologue: Crossing the Border. Intermezzo in the Third Person: Vestigia pedis. Second Intermezzo: Ancient Times. PART II - Berlin Suite. Dead Aeroplanes and Eagles Everywhere. Village within the Wall. Rheinsberg: An Intermezzo. Return to Berlin. PART III. PART IV - A Visit to the Chancellor. Epilogue. Glossary including biographical and other explanatory notes. Index. Afterword to Part I. Notes on this Edition.

'He writes in a voice that blends the acuity of Martha Gellhorn with the meditative grace of W.G. Sebald' Economist.