Austerlitz
- Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , Historical Fiction
- Stock Availability: Out Of Stock
- ISBN: 9780241951804
- Total Pages: 448
- Available Book Formats: Paperback
- Year: 2011
Price:
JOD 11.00
'Mesmeric, haunting, and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erases from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.