Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time.
W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg u, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo, A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water.
A work of obvious genius and an extraordinary writer way above most
of his contemporaries
*Literary Review*
Anyone with a serious interest in fiction should read Sebald
*Daily Telegraph*
His tale of one man's odyssey through the dark ages of European
history is one of the most moving and true fictions on the postwar
world. Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st century
*The Times*
W.G. Sebald, the greatest writer of our time
*Peter Carey*
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