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W. G. Sebald: Austerlitz

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.
ISBN: 9780241951804
Author: W. G. Sebald
Page: 416
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2011
Format: Book
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 4 850 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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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. Austerlitz is W.G. Sebald's melancholic masterpiece.

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