Austerlitz

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• Long and winding river

  Austerlitz W G Sebald 415pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 In W G Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, which helped him acquire a large British reputation, one of the more memorable scenes - intentionally or otherwise - involved a fogeyish narrator, staying at an ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• A journey without maps

  Exiles inhabit another dimension, somewhere beyond nostalgia, in which acuity of vision and the weight of memory combine to convey a strangeness not available to innocent natives. The Russian Andre• Makine, now writing in French, and the German W. G. ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Clever, strange, disturbing, intriguing. I will probably have to read it again, only get to understand it a bit more.

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  Probably one of the latest masterworks in European literature: a devastating journey into the memory of the Shoah, in a brilliant moden stream-of-consciousness format. Haunting and fascinating.

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• English Books
• Paperback 432 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140297995
• ISBN-13: 9780140297997
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Jul 04, 2002
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Livros em Português, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Nederlandse Boeken, Česká kniha, Suomenkielisiä kirjoja

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