Austerlitz / W. G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Sebald, W. G.
Austerlitz / W. G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell [A]. -- London : Penguin Books, c2001

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austelitz is sent to England on a Kinder-transport and placed with forter 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 to him fifty years before...
ISBN: 0140297995

1. GERMAN LITERATURE; 2. HISTORICAL NOVELS I. Bell, Anthea

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