by W.G. Sebald · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140297997
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«Austerlitz» is the novel by W.G. Sebald, published by Penguin Books in paperback (432 pages, in English).
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz arrives in England on a Kindertransport and is taken in by a Calvinist couple in Wales who erase all trace of his origins. Now retired, he reconstructs his earliest memories to discover what happened half a century before. The novel explores identity, memory and the traces of European history.
The English translation is by Anthea Bell. First edition published on 4 July 2002; this edition intersperses black-and-white photographs.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century European history, interested in memory and the consequences of war.
Winfried Georg Sebald, known as W. G. Sebald or Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was according to The New Yorker "widely recognized for his extraordinary contribution to world literature."
