The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
237 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099448882
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Language: English
Publish: 1022655600000
20th CenturyFictionGerman LiteratureGermanyHistorical FictionHolocaustJewishLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald’s precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
Written with a bone-dry sense of humour and a fascination with the oddness of existence The Emigrants is highly original in its heady mix of fact, memory and fiction and photographs.