"As a cultural reporter Michael Gorra is the sort of writer we most
like to read: he's smart, humane, felicitious, well-informed, and
yet willing to let his innocence--what he shares with us
all--develop into provocative and unconventional intellectual
curiosity."--Richard Ford
""The Bells in Their Silence" is on one level a deeply
thoughtful and seductive meditation on Gorra's year in Germany, and
on the uneasy disjunction between Germany's liberal present and its
Nazi past. The book is generously illuminated from within by a
parallel meditation on the conventions, limitations, and
possibilities of the travel narrative. Exemplarily postmodern in
its self-awareness, "The Bells in Their Silence" is an engrossing
and original contribution to the literature of travel."--Jonathan
Raban, author of "Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings"
"Gorra's book announces itself from the very first sentence as a
lyrical hybrid travelogue, mixing the personal and impressionistic
with the reflective. The writing is smart, witty, informed, and
highly readable. One comes away from the book vowing to be more
like Gorra--a more observant, more reflective traveler and a more
adventurous reader."--Sven Birkerts, author of "An Artificial
Wilderness" and "My Sky Blue Trades"
"Gorra has written an unusual book: a melange of travel book and
reflections of travel books, with book reviews, readings of
literary works, and autobiographical sketches. The combination
proves to be extremely effective, providing a multicolored and
multilayered picture of a quickly changing country."--Barbara Hahn,
Princeton University
"Perhaps no single travelogue on Germany has captured so well
our American, post-World WarII generation's tortured relationship
to a land and its people we were brought up loving to hate but
which we learned to love. Beautifully written against the grain of
the traditional travelogue's certainty of judgements and
world-weariness, Michael Gorra's travels through Germany reveal the
internal and external processes of a 'memory tourist' in a land
with too much memory."--James E. Young, author of "The Texture of
Memory" and "At Memory's Edge," Professor and Chair of Judaic &
Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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