{"product_id":"austerlitz-anniversary","title":"Austerlitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece, \"one of the supreme works of art of our time\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e), follows a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman's \u003ci\u003eWild Strawberries, \u003c\/i\u003eKafka's troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust's \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past.\u003c\/i\u003e\"--Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century - A \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Fiction Book of the Century - A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003eForeign Fiction Prize, and \u003ci\u003eJewish Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003eWingate Literary Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA small child when he comes to England on a \u003ci\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is--a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661227196706,"sku":"9780812982619","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_13d52a79-1cad-4b35-9752-7f4c610f3b80.jpg?v=1779452131","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/austerlitz-anniversary","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}