by W.G.Sebald (Author)
Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner companion, stale apple cake, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0099448890
ISBN 13: 9780099448891
Book Overview: 'One of the most original voices to have come from Europe in recent years' Paul Auster