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"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."--P. [2] of cover.
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Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Austerlitz
- Language
- English
- Authors
- W. G. Sebald
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 298
- ISBN10
- 0812982614
- ISBN13
- 9780812982619
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Travel, Family, German Literature, Germany, World War II, England, Literary Fiction, Europe, Great Britain, Memories, Parenthood, Jews, Past, London, Prague, Holocaust, 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 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."--P. [2] of cover.