Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

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‘Reading Trieste makes you want to book a flight straight away . . . [it] throbs with love for the place. It is neither guide book, travel memoir, nor a chronological history but is a relaxing, reflective essay written from a personal perspective by someone who clearly knows the place well and is attuned to its history.’ Guardian

Jan Morris first visited Trieste as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. Since then, the city has come to represent her own life, with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories. In Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere she explores a host of subjects through the lens of Trieste including cities, sex, Jewishness, civility and nationalism.

Documenting the modern history of Trieste from its explosive growth to wealth and fame under the Habsburgs, through the years of Fascist rule to the miserable years of the Cold War, when rivalries among the great powers prevented its creation as a free city under United Nations auspices, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is neither a history nor a travel book; like the place, it is one of a kind.

‘A poignant and enchanting evocation of a life, inspired by a beautifully written meditation on a unique city. A gem.’ P. D. James

Morris, Jan

Melancholy but Marvellous

Ariane Bankes on Jan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

The capital of nowhere – could anywhere be more tantalizing? For those of us increasingly blasé or wary about visiting ‘somewheres’ the world over, many of them the target of hordes of other...