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1) Austerlitz
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Language
English
Appears on these lists
OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
Description
Jacques Austerlitz was only a small child when he was sent to Wales in 1939. He was told nothing of his first family by the couple who raised him, but now he seeks to unlock the mystery of his identity.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Silent Catastrophes brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. As a German in self-chosen exile from his country of birth, Sebald found a particular affinity with these writers from a neighboring nation. The traumatic evolution of Austria from vast empire to diminutive Alpine republic, followed by its annexation...
5) Vertigo
Author
Language
English
Description
A unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again the readers' guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid the restless literary ghosts of Kafka, Stendhal, and Casanova. In four dizzying sections, Sebald, one of the most acclaimed European writers of our time, plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head" as Webster defines it.
