Austerlitz

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Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and p laced with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. Show more