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Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 2001
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 300

A man who grew up in Wales knowing nothing of his own past starts, in middle age, to recover fragments of a Prague childhood cut short by the Kindertransport, and follows the trail to the camp where his mother died.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald

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