W.g. Sebald

<p><b><i>After Nature</i></b><b> is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of <i>Austerlitz</i></b><br><br>''The greatest writer of our time'' Peter Carey<br><br><i>After...

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...

<p><b>''A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation... I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European civilization'' Susan...

<p><b>¿Nothing like <i>Vertigo</i> is likely to be encountered in the course of one''s regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed¿ Anita Brookner, <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br>What...