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1	The rings of Saturn more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist This novel, which has secured W. G. Sebald a reputation as one of the most original literary figures of his time, combines historical fact with fiction as the narrator, who has recently suffered a mysterious and paralyzing breakdown, travels backward in time while he wanders through Suffolk, England. It includes photographs of people and places ... see all copies from £2.03! new only from £6.17! \| first editions
2	Vertigo more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist Sebald's first (and autobiographical) novel is about a disturbed man who is obsessed with the literary giants of the past. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The emigrants more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist The four long narratives in this book appear at first to be plain accounts of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester. But, gradually, the book emerges into one evocation of the experience of exile, the loss of homeland. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.00! \| first editions
4	Austerlitz more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist The narrator of Sebald's fourth novel meets Jacques Austerlitz in a railroad station, and from there their friendship continues, revolving around a series of conversations, ostensibly about architecture but soon expanding to include the details of Austerlitz's life. The narrator learns that he was separated from his true parents at the age of 5, ... see all copies from £2.63! new only from £7.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	On the Natural History of Destruction more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist W. G. Sebald writes eloquently about Germany in the aftermath of World War II, particularly the strange reluctance of Germans to talk about the extensive bombing of their country by the Allies. He also discusses the work of German writers who have written on the subject, or avoided it--particularly Alfred Andersch and Jean Améry. Sebald has been ... see all copies from £7.68! new only from £9.33! \| first editions
6	Campo Santo more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist The last writings of W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) are collected here. While it is infinitely sad to think that there will be no more, this volume is a treasure of Sebaldian meditations on his usual eclectic variety of subjects, including Nabokov, Kafka, Günter Grass, depictions in literature of Kaspar Hauser the wild child, and Sebald's own childhood ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £7.16! \| first editions
7	Unrecounted more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald, Jan Peter Tripp (Illustrator), Michael Hamburger (Translator) add to wishlist This posthumous book of what he called "micro-poems" by W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is accompanied by 33 lithographs, or "eye-landscapes" (including portraits--but only the eyes--of Sebald, his daughter, and their dog), by Jan Peter Tripp, a childhood friend of Sebald. The volume also includes an introduction by Michael Hamburger, the translator; ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.06! \| first editions
8	For Years Now: Poems by W. G. Sebald Images by Tess Jaray more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald, Tess Jaray (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from £6.84! new only from £6.84! \| first editions
9	Die Ringe Des Saturn more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £4.09! new only from £15.34!
10	Luftkreig Und Literatur more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald, Alfred Andersch add to wishlist see all copies from £11.16! new only from £15.45!
11	The Radical Stage: Theater in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s more books like this by W G Sebald (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £27.98! new only from £47.18!
12 view cover	Die Ausgewanderten: Vier Lange Erzahlungen by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £9.90! new only from £15.32!
13 view cover	The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald, Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Editor) add to wishlist "The novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz has carefully rendered these subtle currents of belief and sensibility, moving always beneath an airy conversational style, in dexterous prose."-Virginia Quarterly Review on A Place to Live and other selected essays by Natalia Ginzburg When German author W.G. Sebald died in a car accident at the ... see all copies from £13.08! new only from £13.27!
14 view cover	The rings of Saturn : an English pilgrimage. more books like this by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist This is a fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, W.G. Sebald's home for the last 20 years. The book is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. The author recounts the thoughts of Thomas Browne, Swinburne, Chateaubriand and Joseph Conrad. see all copies from £4.02! first editions
15 view cover	Los Emigrados by W G Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £23.21! new only from £23.22!
16 view cover	After Nature more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist W. G. Sebald's posthumously published book is actually his first, published in German in 1988. Difficult to categorize, it most resembles a prose poem, and is composed of three sections. The first tells the story of Mathias Grünewald, a 16th-century painter. This is followed by the tale of a journey to the Arctic by the 18th-century explorer Georg ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £8.83! \| first editions
17 view cover	Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald more books like this by Lise Patt (Editor), W G Sebald (Photographer), Christel Dillbohner add to wishlist W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expose, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, ... see all copies from £22.60! new only from £22.60!
18	Die Ringe Des Saturn: Eine Englische Wallfahrt more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £45.86! first editions
19 view cover	Young Austerlitz (Pocket Penguins) by W.G. Sebald add to wishlist In Young Austerlitz taken from the last book W. G. Sebald saw published we are told the story of a man who learns that his past is a lie. see all copies from £6.30!
20	Über Das Land Und Das Wasser by W. G. Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £18.83! new only from £20.11!
21	Luftkrieg Und Literatur: Mit Einem Essay Zu Alfred Andersch more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £43.09!
22 view cover	History - Memory - Trauma by W G Sebald, Scott Denham (Editor), Mark McCulloh (Editor) add to wishlist The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur"). His writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, ... see all copies from £105.50! new only from £105.50!
23 view cover	del Natural by W G Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £30.37! new only from £30.37!
24	Unheimliche Heimat : Essays zur österreichischen Literatur more books like this by Winfried Georg Sebald add to wishlist see all copies from £20.07! new only from £20.07!
25	Les Emigrants by W.G.; Charbonneau Sebald, Patrick add to wishlist see all copies from £23.03! new only from £29.48!

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