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Author: Frank Westerman ,
Sam Garrett
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.224kg
ISBN: 9780099461647
ISBN 10: 0099461641
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 August 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: Dutch; Flemish
Reviews
Endlessly fascinating, breathtaking. Engineers of the Soul is surprising and original, not to mention meticulously researched and well-written. <br>-- de Volkskrant <br><br> A beautifully written, well-documented, extraordinarily fascinating book, full of wonderful anecdotes. <br>-- Vrij Nederland<br> <br> [A] fascinating literary travelogue. <br>-- Claire Allfree, Metro <br><br> A compelling combination of literary criticism and travelogue. <br>-- Scotland on Sunday
Brilliant, illuminating and rich * Literary Review * An extraordinarily compelling, imaginative and subtle mixture of history, literary criticism and travelogue * History Today * Westerman completes a portrait at once engaging and devastating. As such, it comes closer than any conventional literary history to defining the elusive Socialist Realism. * Independent * Westerman is a very fine writer and his stories, characters and digressions are as delicately wrought as a watch mechanism. Like Bruce Chatwin and the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, he has elevated the authorial journalist-traveller into a brilliant, magic storyteller; like them he seeks out the smaller, human-sized epics that play out their tragedies against the backdrop of history * Sunday Times * A compelling combination of literary criticism and travelogue * Scotland on Sunday *
A compelling combination of literary criticism and travelogue Scotland on Sunday Westerman is a very fine writer and his stories, characters and digressions are as delicately wrought as a watch mechanism. Like Bruce Chatwin and the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, he has elevated the authorial journalist-traveller into a brilliant, magic storyteller; like them he seeks out the smaller, human-sized epics that play out their tragedies against the backdrop of history Sunday Times Westerman completes a portrait at once engaging and devastating. As such, it comes closer than any conventional literary history to defining the elusive Socialist Realism. Independent An extraordinarily compelling, imaginative and subtle mixture of history, literary criticism and travelogue History Today Brilliant, illuminating and rich Literary Review
Author Information
Frank Westerman was born in 1964 and lived and worked in Moscow from 1997 to 2002 as correspondent for the leading Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspaper. Westerman is the author of five highly praised books. His work has been published in more than ten languages and has won many prizes.
