Austerlitz

By:

Sebald, W.G

Contributor(s):

Bell, Anthea [Translator]

Publication details: Great Britain: Penguin Books, 2018.Description: xxviii, 415p.: ill.; maps; pbk.: 18 cmISBN:

9780241984482

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

833.914 SEB

Summary: In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed 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. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/austerlitz-9780241984482

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Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	833.914 SEB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	035173

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed 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.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/austerlitz-9780241984482

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