The Rings of Saturn

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 296. Quarter-bound maroon cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered and ruled in green foil to spine. Dark grey endpapers. B/w grainy photographs throughout. Jacket design by Semadar Megged ('Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fiction Winner' sticker to front). Originally published as Die Ringe des Saturn, Eine englische Wallfahrt, by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt, in 1995 and subsequently by The Harvill Press, London, 1998.

Signed by the translator, Michael Hulse, to the title page.

An account of a walk along the East Anglian coast and the ruminations it engenders in the narrator. The second of Sebald's meditative, allusive and discursive fictions to be translated into English. "[L]ike a dream you want to last forever." –Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review