A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful '
The greatest writer of our time'
Peter Carey In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents.
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He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, A Place in the Country.
In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970.
He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester.
Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001.
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His art is a form of justice - there can be, I think, no higher aim'
Evening Standard '
Spellbindingly accomplished; a work of art'
The Times Literary Supplement '
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'
Observer '
A great book by a great writer'
Boyd Tonkin, Independent W .
Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald'
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times '
Greatness in literature is still possible'
John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year '
A work of obvious genius'
Literary Review '
A fusion of the mystical and the solid ... '
Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic.
Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.
Austerlitz is W.
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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.
This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.
A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful '
The greatest writer of our time'
Peter Carey In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents
