The Emigrants

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 237. Blue cloth binding, lettered in gilt to spine. B/w grainy photographs throughout. Jacket illustration by Chris Corr (priced £14.99 to front flap). Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Originally published as Die Ausgewanderten by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt, in 1993.

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

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