Austerlitz

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241984482
Published: June 2018

Number of pages: 448
Width: 114 mm
Height: 183 mm
Depth: 30 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd