Carole Angier
Post-Wall Angst
From Germany to Germany: Journal of the Year 1990
By Günter Grass (Translated by Krishna Winston)
Harvill Secker 288pp £15.99) order from our bookshop
Roads to Berlin: Detours and Riddles in the Lands and History of Germany
By Cees Nooteboom (Translated by Laura Watkinson)
MacLehose Press 400pp £20 order from our bookshop
Günter Grass and Cees Nooteboom are grand old men of European literature, and we should be grateful to Harvill Secker and MacLehose Press for bringing us their responses to a key event in European history: the reunification of Germany. However, I warn you that I crawled out of Roads to Berlin, in particular, exhausted and only occasionally enlightened.
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