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Austerlitz
300 pages · 2001 · Rating 4.2
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Austerlitz is an internationally acclaimed masterpiece that tells a gripping story of one man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, the fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half-century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.









































