The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube)

Peter Esterhazy; Lecturer in English Literature Richard Aczel
Northwestern University Press
 9780810117600
0-8101-1760-6

Winner of the 2004 German Publishers and Booksellers Association Peace Prize In The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (down the Danube), Pter Esterhzy tells the story of a professional traveler, commissioned--like.

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Marco Polo by Kublai Khan--to undertake a voyage of discovery and prepare a travelogue. Communicating the details of his journey through terse and surreal telegrams, the Traveller weaves a rich tapestry of narratives, evoking the ethereal past and the precarious present of a disappearing world.