by Cees Nooteboom · Siruela · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498413786
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«El desvío a Santiago» is the travel book by Cees Nooteboom, published by Siruela in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The Dutch writer travels through Spain with Santiago de Compostela as his goal, but lets himself be seduced by detours: Aragon, Granada, Soria, La Gomera and the Prado Museum. Between travel chronicle and essay, his gaze combines erudition, irony and melancholy to reflect on the country's history, politics and literature.
It is a special limited edition with translation by Julio Grande and 28 colour photographs by Simone Sassen. It is part of the El Ojo del Tiempo collection (volume 2).
A work for readers of travel literature and historical non-fiction interested in Spain and the Camino de Santiago.
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituals, which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English-language edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
