Steinbeck'in Ruhuyla Amerika Yollarında

“America was a fairytale world for us European children in the 1950s.” America was always a “secret love” by Geert Mak. He would go almost every year, sometimes as a journalist when he felt like it, sometimes as a spectator or listener. He could look at Europe and the Netherlands with new eyes every time in the mirror that America held up to him. But this time, finally, he turned his eyes directly to America. In this work titled On the Roads of America with the Spirit of Steinbeck, Geert Mak follows the footsteps of the legendary writer John Steinbeck, who went on a journey of discovery from one end to the other in the America of those times with his dog Charley in the autumn of 1960. Exactly fifty years later, Geert Mak sets out from Steinbeck's old house. This is the beginning of a research expedition that will follow Charley and John's route, but through the eyes of 2010. How have American cities and villages changed over the past fifty years? Where is America's Main Street? What dreams have Americans been chasing for centuries? What is left of the Promised Land, which was once envied by the whole world? What connects America and Europe in the twenty-first century? “Geert Mak is a history teacher whom we all love.” -Financial Times- “It is impossible for this book not to drag the reader.” -The Sunday Telegraph- “Geert Mak has such a gripping narrative that one gets carried away without realizing it.” -De Morgen- “If you are going to read a book from European literature, it should be this book.” -Irish Times-

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Media Type: Paperback

Number of Pages: 547

Size: 14x21

First Print Year: 2017

Dough Type: 2.Dough

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Translation: Kadir Turkmen