>>2344431>Werner Herzog mentioning it as his favorite book.that's where I got it from and Herzog doesn't seem to disappoint in those regards.
>A Time of Gifts is whitepilled as fuckyeah, it's so strangely comfy reading it as a german, because in a way you're a stranger to that country just as well as Fermor is.
At the end of the second book I think he reflects decades later over a setting at the Donau that's been completely upturned since his journey - a dam had been erected and all the land he once traversed is now under water. Gutwrenching.
