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Austerlitz , the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” ( The New York Review of Books ), 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, one Jacques Aus-terlitz 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, he 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.
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Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Austerlitz
- Language
- English
- Authors
- W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 298
- ISBN10
- 0375756566
- ISBN13
- 9780375756566
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Travel, Family, German Literature, Germany, World War II, Parenthood, England, Literary Fiction, Great Britain, Europe, Memories, Jews, Past, Holocaust, London, Prague, Journey, Nazism, Paris, Childhood, Identity, Search, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1933-1945, Narration, Persecution of Jews, Central European Literature
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- Austerlitz
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Austerlitz , the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” ( The New York Review of Books ), 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, one Jacques Aus-terlitz 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, he 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.