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Austerlitz By W. G. Sebald (Paperback, 2011)
Austerlitz is W G Sebald's haunting novel of post-war EuropeIn 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 WG 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 Allgau 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
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 Allgau 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
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