Strange, beautiful and terribly moving, A.S. ByattThis deeply moving book shames most writers with its nerve and tact and wonder, Michael OndaatjeAn unconsoling masterpiece...It is exquisitely written and exquisitely translated...a true work of art, SpectatorA spellbinding account of four Jewish exiles. Its restrained and meditative tone has stayed with me all year, Nicholas ShakespeareA sober delicate account of displacement, and a classic of its kind. Modest and remote, it resurrects older standards of behaviour, making most contemporary writing seem brash and immature. No book has pleased me more this year, Anita Brookner, SpectatorBiografía del autorW. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.