Austerlitz

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong W. G. Sebaldx{0026}lt;/strong (1944-2001) nació en Wertach, Alemania. Después de acabar sus estudios universitarios vivió en Suiza, y luego se trasladó a Inglaterra. Desde 1970 fue profesor en Norwich. Entre sus galardones figuran el premio Joseph Breitbach, el Heinrich Heine y, en 2002, el Independent Foreign Fiction por Austerlitz. En Anagrama se han publicado x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Del natural, Vértigo, Pútrida patria, Los emigrados, Los anillos de Saturno, Sobre la historia natural de la destrucción, Austerlitzx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Campo Santo.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;/p