{"product_id":"austerlitz-9780812982619","title":"Austerlitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece, \"one of the supreme works of art of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), follows a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman's \u003ci\u003eWild Strawberries, \u003c\/i\u003eKafka's troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century - A \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of the Century - A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003eForeign Fiction Prize, and \u003ci\u003eJewish Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003eWingate Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA small child when he comes to England on a \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is--a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. G. Sebald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812982619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His books \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. His other books include \u003ci\u003eAfter Nature, Campo Santo, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in December 2001.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44697613697139,"sku":"9780812982619","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_0724184f-3fa5-40b7-ac81-eda2a74262ff.jpg?v=1775243166","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/austerlitz-9780812982619","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}