num_pages: 415
description: Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by “one of the most gripping writers imaginable” (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, one Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, the fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, he follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
language: English
title: Austerlitz
titlecomplete: Austerlitz
characters: Jacques Austerlitz
genres: Germany, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, German Literature, Classics, War, Fiction, Holocaust
ratings_count: 21213
places: Paris, Terezín, London, England, Prague (Praha), Mariánské Lázně, Antwerp
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Bremer Literaturpreis, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Anthea Bell, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Anthea Bell, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Kääntäjien valtionpalkinto, awardedAt: 1609488000000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd