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Zusatztext In 1939! five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one ofthe Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasonsof their own! the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledgeof his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelingsof otherness! but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journeyto make a sense of his curious early memories and explores what happenedto him half a century ago. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A highly acclaimed piece of work from the late novelist and academic! which was one of the literary publishing events of 2001! and which was selected as Book of the Year by a number of key authors and reviewers! such as John Banville! Alain de Botton! Boyd Tonkin and Anita Brookner. An epic study of wartime and childhood from an author widely regarded as one of Europe's finest! whose life was tragically cut short by a motorcycle accident in December! 2001.
