Austerlitz
/ W.G. Debald / translated by Anthea Bell
- New York : Random House , c2001.
- 298p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Over thirty years, in the course of conversations that take place across Europe, a man named Jacques Austerlitz tells a nameless companion of his ongoing sturggle with the riddle of his identity. A small child when he immigrates alone to England in the summer of 1939, Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh couple who raise him, and he strains to orient himself in a world whose natural reference points have been obliterated.