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Austerlitz

Sebald, W. G.Wood, James(Introduction by)Bell, Anthea(Translated by)
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In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales.

For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity.

Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago.

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Penguin Books Ltd
0140297995 / 9780140297997
Paperback
833.914
04/07/2002
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
414 p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001.