Roads to Santiago

Roads to Santiago (Dutch: De omweg naar Santiago) is a 1992 travelogue by the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. It focuses on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Roads to Santiago
First edition (Dutch)
AuthorCees Nooteboom
Original titleDe omweg naar Santiago
TranslatorIna Rilke
CountryNetherlands
LanguageDutch
PublisherUitgeverij Atlas
Publication date
1992
Published in English
1996
Pages412
ISBN9025400434

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly: "The pilgrims' route to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain has long been a favorite subject of travel writers, but few have covered it as entertainingly, quirkily and, finally, movingly as Dutch essayist Nooteboom (The Following Story)." The critic continued: "At one point, Nooteboom compares writing history to putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Anyone who hopes to find a compact history of Spain here will find some pieces missing. But what's here is an idiosyncratic, informative, introspective reading adventure."[1]

See also

References
  1. Staff writer (1997-04-28). "Roads to Santiago". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2012-04-16.


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