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A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
$30.00 NZD
Category: 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
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris. The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a child ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
$30.00 NZD
Category: 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald
$27.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good - very good
Sebald's final collection of essays provides a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Gunter Grass, Bruce Chatwin and Kafka, showing both how lite ...Show more
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
$28.00 NZD
Category: History
In the last years of World War II, the Allies dropped a million bombs on Germany. Yet the German people have been silent about the resulting devestation and loss of life, failing to recognise the terrible shadow that destruction from the air cast over their land. Here W.G. Sebald asks why it is we turn ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$26.00 NZD
Category: 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: 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
Unrecounted : 33 Texts and 33 Etchings by W.G. Sebald & Jan Peter Tripp (tr Michael Hamburger)
$49.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
For a number of years until his death in 2001, W. G. Sebald and the German artist Jan Peter Tripp exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the result of this long artistic friendship - a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns. Sebald's words and Tripp's images speak of moments salvaged fro ...Show more
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Perfectly titled, Vertigo --W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavari ...Show more
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