This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
Author: W. G. Sebald
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 12/06/2011
Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780812982619
Language: English
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