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Austerlitz

Door W.G. Sebald

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#410499-XU7
Titel
Austerlitz
Auteur
Sebald, W.G.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0241951801
ISBN13
9780241951804
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A superb meditation on time, loss and retrieval. A new kind of writing, combining fiction, memoir, travelogue, philosophy and much else besides . . . greatness in literature is still possible' John Banville, Irish Times, Books of the Year In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. 'A work of obvious genius and an extraordinary writer way above most o... (Lees verder)f his contemporaries' Literary Review 'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. Simply no other writer is writing or thinking on the same level as Sebald. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'An extraordinary, mesmeric story and one of the most haunting books of the year' Esther Freud, Observer 'Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald' John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph
Pagina's
414
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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