Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by "one of the most gripping writers imaginable" (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man?s search for the answer to his life?s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.

The 169th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 5th on The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian)
  2. - 7th on A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon (Vulture)
  3. - 7th on The Millions: The Best Fiction of the Millennium (The Millions)
  4. - 13th on In Which These Are the 100 Greatest Novels (ThisRecording.com)
  5. - 13th on The 100 Best Books of the Decade(2000) (Times)
  6. - 14th on The 21st Century's 12 Greatest Novels (BBC)
  7. - 55th on The Telegraph’s 100 Novels Everyone Should Read (Telegraph)
  8. - 100th on The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time: The List (The Observer)
  9. - Books of the Decade (The Guardian)
  10. - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (The Book)
  11. - The 50 Books Everyone Needs to Read, 1963-2013 (Flavor Wire)
  12. - National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction (National Book Critics Circle)
  13. - 48 Good Books (University of Buffalo)
  14. - The Bigger Read List (English PEN)

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Austerlitz Hardcover 1979798 $18.98
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Austerlitz Audio CD 7141398 $38.89
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Austerlitz Audio CD 1582705 $36.39 $39.30 2017
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Austerlitz Hardcover 1906272 $31.64 $25.42 2019
Austerlitz (Folio) (French Edition) Mass Market Paperback 11854669 $11.18 2006
Austerlitz Audible Audio Edition 6252 $21.44 2017
Young Austerlitz (Pocket Penguins) Paperback 6719395 $21.48 $11.99 2005
A Place in the Country (Modern Library Classics) Paperback 671294 $13.37 $6.70 2015
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001 (Modern Library (Paperback)) Paperback 889291 $10.83 $7.97 2013
Campo Santo (Modern Library Paperbacks) Paperback 1206619 $12.67 $11.56 2006
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Austerlitz (Lib)(CD) Audio CD 4507699 $17.61 2002
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Austerlitz (Romans, nouvelles, récits) (French Edition) Paperback 7551292 $10.92 2002
By W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) (10th) (12.2.2010) Paperback 1310099 $27.33 $20.73 2010
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