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An unexpected feature of this book is the fifty or so pages at the end which provide photographs and reference material. I was some 30 pages into the book before I discovered these. This brought to mind the work of W.G.Seebald whose elegiac tone, Nooteboom's travel memoir sometimes resembles. There are touches which reminded me of Lawrence Durrell's ''The Alexandrian Quartet'' and of the mysterious symmetries of Anne Michael's ''Fugitive Pieces''. This book will not be to everyone's taste, as by nature, it is inconclusive but thought provoking. It asks fundamental questions about human behaviour ''sub specie aeternitatis'' - Baruch Spinoza's term for the eternal perspective.
Many thanks to Maclehose Press for the review copy. Nooteboom's previous book on the fall of the wall can be found at [[Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom and Laura Watkinson (Translator)|Roads to Berlin]] and another discussion of a fruitful Greek myth is discussed at [[Orpheus, The Song Of Life by Ann Wroe]]. Laura Watkinson also translated [[Hieronymus by Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)|Hieronymus by Marcel Ruijters]].
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