Austerlitz
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- ISBN: 0812982614
- ISBN: 9780812982619
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Physical Description
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xix, 298 pages : illustrations, map - Edition 10th anniversary ed., Modern Library trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher New York : Modern Library, 2011.
- Copyright ©2001
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from the German. Translation originally published: New York : Random House, 2001. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.70 |
Awards Note: | National Book Critics Circle Award |
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Summary
Austerlitz
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. 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.