A city, brick by brick

Roads to Berlin

For decades, Holland’s Cees Nooteboom has had a towering reputation in international letters. An acclaimed novelist and poet, Nooteboom has won major literary awards and remains one of the Nobel Prize committee’s most notable oversights.

His significant contribution to travel writing is best-represented by his 1992 book, Roads to Santiago, which charts and scrutinises the pilgrims’ route across northern Spain and is now considered a classic.