Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (Paperback, 2002)

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Author: W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell ISBN 10: 0140297995. Title: Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials) Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Publisher: Penguin ISBN 13: 9780140297997. Will be clean, not soiled or stained.

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The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a childless couple who, for reasons of their own, erase in the boy all knowledge of his identity. Though he does, later on as an adult, have intimations of his otherness, Austerlitz, whose profession is that of an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century previously, taking him back on a journey into the heart of Europe on the edge of war. The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris.

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140297997
eBay Product ID (ePID)87960620

Product Key Features

Book TitleAusterlitz
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicLiterature, Poetry, Books
GenreBiographies & True Stories, Historical
AuthorW. G. Sebald
FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height198 mm
Item Weight386 g
Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorW. G. Sebald

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