{"product_id":"austerlitz-9780812982619","title":"Austerlitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece, \"one of the supreme works of art of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), follows a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman's \u003ci\u003eWild Strawberries, \u003c\/i\u003eKafka's troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century - A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003eForeign Fiction Prize, and \u003ci\u003eJewish Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003eWingate Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA small child when he comes to England on a \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is--a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ethe universal human search for identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis tenth-anniversary edition features a new Introduction by James Wood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He has taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, since 1970, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 194 was the first director of the British Center for Literary Translation. His three previous books have won a number of international awards, including the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Time\u003c\/i\u003es Book Award for fiction, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599927087378,"sku":"9780812982619","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ef4601a-30d6-4a32-9490-038f45e77a48.jpg?v=1732207124","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/austerlitz-9780812982619","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}