{"product_id":"9780241984482","title":"W. G. Sebald - Austerlitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by W. G. Sebald. Themes include Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography, Military, Fiction, Historical, 20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald' Eileen Battersby, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A work of obvious genius' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A great book by a great writer' Boyd Tonkin, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Austerlitz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfter Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCampo Santo, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnrecounted\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Place in the Country\u003c\/i\u003e. His selected poetry is published in a volume called \u003ci\u003eAcross the Land and the Water.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58013056991606,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780241984482.jpg?v=1780505049","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780241984482","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}