The Emigrants

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 237. Quarter-bound navy blue cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Dark grey endpapers. B/w grainy photographs throughout. Jacket design by Semadar Megged (priced $22.95 to front flap). Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Originally published as Die Ausgewanderten by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt, in 1993.

Winner of the Berlin Literature Prize and the Literatur Nord Prize. The first of Sebald's books to be translated into English, it was issued in a very small print run, hence extremely scarce. This elegiac second novel, follows four displaced Jewish émigrés who remain haunted by the war years. In precise, almost dreamlike prose, their stories merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. "A masterpiece." –Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung