Berlin 1989 / 2009

As an outsider and empathetic eyewitness, Cees Nooteboom experiences the year 1989 in Berlin. At the end of the nineties, the author visits the now reunified city again. And ten years later, he inspects the conditions in Berlin once more. The fall of the Wall, the nineties, today’s Berlin: the great Dutch storyteller and essayist Cees Nooteboom presents new, previously unpublished texts alongside his now classic Berlin notes and his return to Berlin. Twenty years of tumultuous history are reflected in this collection of essays that tell of the Germans and their capital, in a wise, unpretentious, and sensual manner.