Austerlitz
Recommended by Edmund de Waal, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #40 in Memory Improvement, Ranked #41 in German
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport 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... more
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Edmund de Waal Austerlitz is an incredibly beautiful book. Sebald was a really interesting German writer, and I think this is his masterpiece. He blows away genre. (Source)
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