Nomad's Hotel
Travels in Time and Space
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Feb '07
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A whimsical, hilarious, heartbreaking tour of the world from a writer A. S. Byatt has called 'one of the greatest modern novelists'.
This absurdly enjoyable collection of travel pieces by one of the world's most entertaining writers takes us from the exotic by way of Gambia, Mali and Isfahan, to the seemingly domesticated vistas of Australia and Zurich, and finds poetry and beauty in them all.
This absurdly enjoyable collection of travel pieces by one of the world's most entertaining writers takes us from the exotic by way of Gambia, Mali and Isfahan, to the seemingly domesticated vistas of Australia and Zurich, and finds poetry and beauty in them all.
What marks this collection out as something different from an ordinary travel anthology are Nooteboom's meditations on what it means to travel and to be a traveller and his quest, like that of so many other explorers, to discover the perfect hotel.
This is vintage Nooteboom; a book of immense range and depth, it is an illuminating record of a world class traveller's many discoveries and insights and perfect holiday, and armchair, reading.
This is a jewel of a travel book, free of pretension, full of easy adventure, fresh with childlike wonder for the world. * Travel Extra *
Nooteboom writes beautifully. His prose is clean and precise without feeling sparse, and he manages to combine clarity with intense lyricism -- Rebecca Abrahams * Guardian *
Nooteboom has shown himself a master of ironic wisdom, but also of elated, elegiac feeling -- Ben Rogers * Independent on Sunday *
A cause for gentle celebration * Time Out *
Observant and meditative * The Times *
Some inimitable observations on life as she is lived * Irish Times *
A traveller on a grand scale...beautifully crafted -- Mark Cocker * Guardian *
As with all exceptional writers who itch to travel, his writing attains an almost imperceptible stream of consciousness, one that takes it far beyond the usual serendipitous wanderings * Scotsman *
As he makes his guileful, sharp, provoking, seductive progress across the globe, he's prepared to free-fall into dreamlike appreciation of sensation, prepared to be frightened, prepared , too, to scrutinise, question, challenge, admit to ignorance.... The writing scintillates... His book is a compass of sorts, quite useless for aiding escape on a desert island, but, in augmenting the bible and Shakespeare in that locale, quite indispensable nonetheless -- Tom Adair * Scotland on Sunday *
ISBN: 9780099453789
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 171g
240 pages