Published to enormous critical acclaim in the U.
S.
What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish Emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester, merges into an overwhelming evocation of the experience of exile and the loss of homeland..
Illustrated throughout with enigmatic photographs.
Sebald has wrought one of the best novels to appear since WWII (REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION) and three times chosen as the1996 International Book of the Year.
But author W.
G. and sold out immediately in its first hardcover edition, THE Emigrants appears to be straightforward biography of four Germans in exile.
Published to enormous critical acclaim in the U.
S