Den hollandske forfatter Geert Mak har med Min fars århundrede skrevet fortællingen om sin families historie gennem tre generationer. Men bogen er samtidig en rejse gennem hele det 20. århundrede: Liv...
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Istanbul's Galata Bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europ...
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A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars,...
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The village as we have known it for centuries must adapt to survive, but what will be lost in the process? In this book the author returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwerd (pop 3...
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The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknow...
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