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W. G. Sebald
ISBN: 9780140297997
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity.
In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago.
| ISBN | 0140297995 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780140297997
(What's this?) | | Pages | 432 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 386 | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 04 Jul 2002 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Translator | Anthea Bell | | Spine width (mm) | 31 | | DEWEY | 833.914 | | Academic level | General |
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"Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century" The Times Blackwell review: Blending fiction, biography and haunting photographs, this is without doubt a meisterwork. Dreamlike, poignant and sublime, there is no-one quite like Sebald. Prepare to be mesmerised and moved by greatness.
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