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description: Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon. Let me take you down the alleys that lead into its past. To a town peopled with eccentrics full of charm menace and wonder. To the days before television to Marie Bodards sweetshop to the Nazi occupation and unexpected collaborators. To a place where one neighbour murders another over the misfortune of pigs and potatoes. To the hotel where the French poet Verlaine his lover Rimbaud holed up whilst on the run from family creditors and the law.This exquisite meditation on place time and memory is an illicit peek into other peoples countries into the spaces they have populated with their memories and might just make you revisit your own in a new and surprising way.
language: English
title: Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
publisher: Vintage Digital