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A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald. When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Pla ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A special tenth-anniversary edition of W.G. Sebald's modern classic, "Austerlitz", with a new introduction by James Wood. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of h ...Show more
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
$24.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$26.99 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres 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 sen ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silk ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
$24.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present- of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fi ...Show more
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