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W. G. Sebald Austerlitz (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: AusterlitzCondition: NewEAN: 9780241951804ISBN: 9780241951804Publisher: Penguin Books LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/03/2011Language: EnglishItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 27mmItem Weight: 309gAuthor: W. G. SebaldTranslator: Anthea BellContributor: Anthea Bell (Translated by), James Wood (Introduction by)ISBN-10: 0241951801Description: A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 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. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times'Greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year'A work of obvious genius' Literary Review'A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim' Evening Standard'Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art' The Times Literary Supplement 'I have never read a book that provides such a powerful account of the devastation wrought by the dispersal of the Jews from Prague and their treatment by the Nazis' Observer'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin, IndependentW . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Austerlitz

Publication Name: Austerlitz

Title: Austerlitz

EAN: 9780241951804

ISBN: 9780241951804

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 11/03/2011

Release Year: 2011

Language: English

Item Height: 198mm

Item Length: 129mm

Item Width: 27mm

Item Weight: 309g

Author: W. G. Sebald

Translator: Anthea Bell

Contributor: James Wood (Introduction by)

ISBN-10: 0241951801

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Genre: Fiction

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