Austerlitz
  • Published: 19 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951804
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $30.00

Austerlitz

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'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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.
  • Published: 19 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951804
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $30.00
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Praise for Austerlitz

His tale of one man's odyssey through the dark ages of European history is one of the most moving and true fictions on the postwar world. Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st century

The Times

A work of obvious genius and an extraordinary writer way above most of his contemporaries

Literary Review

Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald

John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph