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Austerlitz
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Author:
Sebald, W.G.
Author of introduction, etc.:
Wood, James
Published:
Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), 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, one 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, he 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.
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Street Date:
12/06/2011
Language:
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ISBN:
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W.G. Sebald. (2011). Austerlitz. Random House Publishing Group.

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W.G. Sebald. 2011. Austerlitz. Random House Publishing Group.

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W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

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W.G. Sebald. Austerlitz. Random House Publishing Group, 2011.

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