Austerlitz

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 357. Laminated pictorial boards. B/w illustrations throughout. Sans dustwrapper. [There was also an issue, in the same format, of 100 copies signed by the author].

The fourth of the author's books to be translated into English. Published shortly before his tragic death in a motoring accident. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Fiction in 2001. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of their 10 best books for 2001. Over the course of a thirty-year conversation conducted at train stations across Europe, the book's narrator, and a nameless companion attempt to unravel the riddle of the former's identity. Sebald's usual hallmarks – the strange photographic inserts in the text, the shifting tangential asides on a variety of subjects – are all present here.