Austerlitz

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.

ISBN	0241951801	DEWEY edition	DC22
ISBN13	9780241951804 (What's this?)	Pages	448
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd	Weight (grammes)	298
Imprint	Penguin Books Ltd	Published in	London
Format	Paperback	Previous ISBN	9780140297997
Publication date	03 Nov 2011	Height (mm)	198
Translator	Anthea Bell	Width (mm)	129
Writer of introduction	James Wood	Spine width (mm)	27
DEWEY	833.914	Academic level	General

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