Written at the height of his career, A Place in the Country is W.G. Sebald's lyrical homage to six writers and artists who greatly influenced him in his life and work.
W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted, Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications.
A fascinating volume that confirms Sebald as one of Europe's most
mysterious and best-loved literary imaginations
*Evening Standard*
Sebald was in possession of the uncanny ability to make his own
intellectual obsessions, immediately, compulsively his reader's
*Observer*
Shows a writer at his most inquisitive, gazing deeply under the
surface of things
*Financial Times*
Irresistible . . . an intimate anatomy of the pathos, absurdity and
perverse splendour of trying to find patterns in the chaos of the
world
*Independent*
Erudite, truthful, moving
*The Times*
A beautiful book . . . about the crazy quest for meaning, and how
we persist with it despite the shadows that slide towards us
*Spectator*
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