A collection of twenty-five essays on Spain, from the author of }Rituals{ and }The Following Story{. Written between 1979 and 1992, these pieces can be used as a guide to the Spain beyond the tourist resorts, at the same time filling the reader with a longing for the country. 40 b/w photos by Simone Sassen A many-tangented pilgrimage through ten centuries of Spain's history, its politics, its art, literature and architecture, its climate and its people, in which Nooteboom unlocks doors to an undiscovered Spain and reveals his obsession for a country he has come to know intimately over the course of forty years.
