Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald · 2001
Literary Fiction · ranked #182 in category
Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian, begins to recover the buried memory of his own identity — he was brought to England as a child on the Kindertransport and never knew his origins. Sebald's narrator encounters him across forty years of chance meetings. The novel weaves together architecture, memory and the slow emergence of a traumatic history in prose saturated with photographs.
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