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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.

  • ISBN-13: 9780812982619
  • ISBN-10: 0812982614
  • Publisher: Modern Library
  • Publish Date: December 2011
  • Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 320

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