About the Book

"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 Aus-terlitz 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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 304 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Modern Library (Sep. 30th, 2002)

ISBN-10: 0375756566

ISBN-13: 9780375756566

Dimensions: 5.20 x 8.04 x 0.66 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.56 lbs

• Categories: General Fiction and Literature