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Austerlitz

Austerlitz

by Anthea Bell (Translator), Anthea Bell (Translator), W. G. Sebald (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 04 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0140297995
ISBN 13: 9780140297997
Prizes: Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2002 and Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002. Shortlisted for WH Smith Literary Prize 2002 and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 2002.

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Author Bio
W.G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in December 2001. He is the author of the highly acclaimed THE EMIGRANTS, THE RINGS OF SATURN and VERTIGO. Hamish Hamilton is publishing AFTER NATURE to coincide with the paperback of AUSTERLITZ.