Austerlitz : Penguin Essentials - W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz

By: W. G. Sebald

Paperback | 18 June 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time.

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.

About the Author

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.
Industry Reviews
A work of obvious genius and an extraordinary writer way above most of his contemporaries * Literary Review *
Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald -- John Lanchester * Daily Telegraph *
His tale of one man's odyssey through the dark ages of European history is one of the most moving and true fictions on the postwar world. Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st century * The Times *
W.G. Sebald, the greatest writer of our time -- Peter Carey

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