A Journey to Nowhere
among the lands and history of courland
$41.77
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2013
Summary
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991.
It is now a nowhere land of wide skies and forests, deserted beaches, ruined castles and ex-KGB prisons. For years Jean-Paul Kauffmann has been irresistibly drawn to this buffer between th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782062424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782062424 |
| Author: | Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Professor Euan Cameron |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
‘This wonderful writer has come up with another winner’ Giles Foden.
‘A seductively exciting historical exploration of a country that no longer exists … Kauffmann is the ideal literary detective’ Irish Times. * Irish Times *‘A triumph … superbly translated by Euan Cameron, provides a vivid amalgam of opinion, history and travelogue; I was absorbed from start to finish’ Financial Times. * Financial Times *‘Curiously engaging and even tantalising book … this book is something of a tour de force’ Spectator. * Spectator *‘Kauffmann is a gripping narrator. The minute he lands in Riga … you’re hooked’ The Lady. * Lady *‘This wonderful writer has come up with another winner’ Giles Foden. * Giles Foden *
About The Author
Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Jean-Paul Kauffmann is the author of The Dark Room at Longwood (1999), an exploration of Napoleon’s exile on St Helena, Desolation Island (2001) and Wrestling with the Angel (2003). He was a journalist until 1985, when he was kidnapped in Beirut and only released three years later.
Euan Cameron’s translations include works by Julien Green, Simone de Beauvoir and Paul Morand, biographies of Marcel Proust and Irene Nemirovsky.
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