Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written & updated over the course of several decades an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nootebooms writings on politics people architecture & culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine & Goethe steeped in Romanticism & mythology & to Germanys baroque cities. With an outsiders objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day.