Austerlitz
A man raised in Wales discovers he came to Britain on a Kindertransport, and sets out to recover what was taken.
A man raised in a Welsh manse as Dafydd Elias learns in middle age that he arrived in Britain on a Kindertransport, and sets out through Prague, Paris and Terezín to recover what was taken from him. Sebald tells it in long unbroken paragraphs, interleaved with photographs, and it was his last book before his death in 2001.
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Edmund de Waal
But you know what: I cannot sum up Austerlitz. I refuse to sum it up. It refuses to be summarised. What I will say about it is that I read it in the English translation, and then I read it in German, and I was absolutely amazed because it has the feeling even in German of being a book in translation. It has a cadence to it which is really intriguing, and which is something to do with being a book about Europe.
Interview · May 2012
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