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, 415 pages, with small black and white photographs throughout
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About the Author
W.G. Sebald is one of very few German writers of the last few decades to have attracted both a broad readership in the UK and an international following of journalists and scholars alike. He has proved a huge inspiration not just to younger writers but also to artists and photographers fascinated by the use of imagery and images in his work. His books include The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and After Nature.
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"A remarkable accomplishment." --"Los Angeles Times""Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art." --Richard Eder, "The New York Times Book Review""Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away." --Anthony Lane, "The New Yorker""Is literary greatness still possible? What would a noble literary enterprise look like? One of the few answers available to English-speaking readers is the work of W. G. Sebald." --Susan Sontag
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. Fifth impression of the first edition in English, with the no. "5" on the printer's page. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. With monochrome photographic illustrations throughout. ***Near fine in burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Spine tight. Edges of page block nice and clean. Internally also near fine and clean with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. ***In a very good monochrome photo-illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £16.99 on the front flap. The top edge of the front panel has some creasing. No chips or tears. No marks. Spine of dustwrapper hardly faded at all with the titles still bright. ***224mm x 146mm. 416 pages. ***In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the so-called Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Austerlitz, who eventually becomes 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 ago'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A fifth impression of the first edition in English, complete in its original dustwrapper, in very nice condition. A heavy book, printed on thick photo-quality paper, and hard to find in such nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 8401
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