num_pages: 296
description: The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich.
language: English
title: The Rings of Saturn
titlecomplete: The Rings of Saturn
characters: Joseph Conrad
genres: 20th Century, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Essays, Germany, Fiction, Travel
ratings_count: 14299
places: East Anglia, England
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Essai, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Michael Hulse, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: New Directions