This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece
includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. Austerlitz
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, 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, Austerlitz 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.