Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

The Venice Notebook by Cees Nooteboom is a captivating tribute to the city of Venice, weaving together the author's many travels over the past fifty years.

With a highly distinctive voice and new angle of vision, Nooteboom brings to life the destination he discovered and admired from the alleys, locked gates, and countless canals.

Surrounded by the dead, he pays homage to the painters and writers who lived and worked there, as well as the palaces, bridges, paintings, and sculpture that give the city a kind of immortality.

This radiant tribute to Venice is in the vein of Steinbeck, Forster, or Theroux, and will leave readers with an illuminating testimony of a man who cannot look away from the city's wonders.