Austerlitz in Stellenbosch, Western Cape for sale

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Boeke - Tydskrifte
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Fiction
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The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a childless couple who, for reasons of their own, erase in the boy all knowledge of his identity.;Though he does, later on as an adult, have intimations of his otherness, Austerlitz, whose profession is that of an architectural historian, goes through life assiduously avoiding all clues that might point to his origins and to the fate of his true parents. It is only in his retirement that the past returns to haunt him and makes him explore what happened to him half a century previously, taking him back on a journey into the heart of Europe on the edge of war.;The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris.
Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century The Times
About the author (2002)
W.G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in December 2001. He is the author of the highly acclaimed THE EMIGRANTS, THE RINGS OF SATURN and VERTIGO. Hamish Hamilton is publishing AFTER NATURE to coincide with the paperback of AUSTERLITZ.
Bibliographic information
Title Austerlitz
Author Winfried Georg Sebald
Translated by Anthea Bell
Edition illustrated, Paperback
Publisher Penguin , 2002
ISBN 0140297995, 9780140297997
Length 414 pages