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Austerlitz

Austerlitz

by W.G. Sebald

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#417

4.33 (3 reviews)
Pages
415
Award(s)
National Book Critics Circle Award (2001)

Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), 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, one Jacques Aus-terlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife...

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forline

Jan 5th, 2018

another great book I would never have found without this list....slow start and then great!

bryanoz

Dec 24th, 2017

vainglorious

Nov 9th, 2013