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The Emigrants

The Emigrants( )
Author: Sebald, W. G.
ISBN:978-1-86046-127-9
Publication Date:Aug 2002
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be plain accounts of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester. There are even a great many photographs amid the text, which give the impression that the reader is poring over a family album, trying to tease out the truth behind the fading images. However, as Sebald's prose gradually exerts a powerful hold on the reader, the stories merge into one overwhelming evocation of the experience of...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Jewish
Fiction / Historical / 20Th Century / World War Ii
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14 x 22 cm
Book Weight:0.45 Kilograms
Author Biography
Sebald, W. G. (Author)
He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. He has taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England since 1970. He became a professor of European literature in 1987. From 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. He was born in Wertach in Allgau, Germany in 1944.

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