Austerlitz - Softcover

Sebald, Winfried Georg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375756566 ISBN 13: 9780375756566

Publisher: Modern Library, 2002

Synopsis

Jacques Austerlitz, an orphan refugee child who arrived in London in 1939 and was raised by a Methodist minister, struggles to understand who he is as he moves through his life. Winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books—The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375756566
• ISBN 13: 9780375756566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298